Claim: The best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Reason: Heroes and role models reveal a society's highest ideals.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
How to best understand a culture or society has yet to be defined. Because of this, scientists and sociologists employ a variety of techniques when studying different cultures across the globe. One commonly applied process of acquiring a quick summary of a society is studying a specific culture’s heroes and role models. Those that utilize this technique claim that heroes and role models represent a culture’s highest ideals, and by understanding a society’s values, one can gain an accurate glimpse of that society’s character.
While easy and efficient, this method is controversial on multiple levels. First off, from simple statistics, one should never generalize observations from a small sample of celebrities to a whole population. Secondly, what one categorizes a “hero” or “role model” is totally subjective and will lead to confusing or inconclusive data, destroying any reliability of the study.
Trying to understand populations is a very difficult and tedious task because it is logistically impossible to survey every person within a population. What scientists do instead is take a random proportion of the population and survey them. Only then, assuming randomization, and internal validity is present can accurate data be obtained. By only interviewing a select few people, outliers mind you, the results produced by this “study” would come back with outlandish, exaggerated answers.
In addition to a small sample size, how a role model or hero is defined will have a drastic effect on the results. One individual may list Aaron Rodgers as a role model or hero, while the next person interviewed may list Kim Kardashian as a role model. Without creating a more defined example of a hero or role model, completely different results will be obtained each time a study is completed.
Finally, the reasoning behind why sampling celebrities to gain an idea of a society’s character is inherently wrong. Most heroes or role models are famous because they are very unique or have an exaggerated skill or personal attribute that society finds entertaining. Aaron Rodgers is very good at throwing a football, while Kim Kardashian has a large butt, however, one’s ability to throw a football or the size of their bum has almost no correlation to how well they will do in life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 241, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ulation. Secondly, what one categorizes a 'hero' or 'role model&ap...
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Line 5, column 179, Rule ID: VERY_UNIQUE[1]
Message: Use simply 'unique'.
Suggestion: unique
...role models are famous because they are very unique or have an exaggerated skill or persona...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, in addition, mind you
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 33.0505617978 45% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 58.6224719101 61% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1987.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 371.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35579514825 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27207511244 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584905660377 0.4932671777 119% => OK
syllable_count: 642.6 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2968349531 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.882352941 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8235294118 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94117647059 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298436873443 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0935724092929 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0942907324607 0.0758088955206 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154577312719 0.150359130593 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0978089641336 0.0667264976115 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.7 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.