Claim: Imagination is a more valuable asset than experience.
Reason: People who lack experience are free to imagine what is possible without the constraints of established habits and attitudes.
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.
The question of which is a more valuable asset: experience or imagination, is an intricate one. Some believe imagination holds more value than experience and allows for experience through imagination. However, experience is the more valuable asset because it allows for additional learning and a more accurate representation of complex topics.
First, making mistakes by doing something enhances learning. Take into consideration the synthesis of a vaccine of a new virus. The mechanism of the virus has to be understood in order to make a working vaccine. Scientists use their knowledge of the virus and try to produce a vaccine that fights off the virus. However, if the virus is new, not many aspects of it are understood, so trial and error is used to generate a vaccine. Once an individual produces a potential vaccine, it is then tested. If it does not show the intended results then the individual will start again but now they have this additional information of what process is working and what is not because of this trial and error process. Thus, experiencing error gives route to broaden one’s knowledge and learning.
Furthermore, experience aids in creating a more accurate representation of specific subjects. Imagine, a teenager who has been rollerblading their entire life and now has a pioneering idea of going ice skating for the first time. Because he has grown up rollerblading, he is able to understand the motion of skating and can apply this knowledge to ice skating. He is aware of how to go, stop and even knows the pain of falling while skating, the only new factor he has to consider is ice. But even so, he has sufficient information to understand the specifics of ice skating because he has previously rollerbladed which has allowed him to create a picture of skating in his mind. So, because of his prior knowledge, he is able to create a fairly accurate representation of ice skating.
Finally, some may argue that there are existing circumstances that cannot physically be experience and so instead have to be imagined. For instance, take the events of the holocaust. The unethical genocide of the Jewish people cannot be experienced today and instead are taught in school through movies and books to children. Although, this is true, it is also true that these past experiences of individuals who lived through that harsh era are documented and remade to be taught. These experiences do not merely come from fictional thought, they do hold truth and legitimacy. So, even though certain circumstances like this cannot be experienced, it is still taught as accurately as can be to convey the events as accurately as possible.
Though there are valid reasons to believe imagination holds more value than experience, these claims do not outweigh the opposing side. Learning through error by experiment allows for the expansion of knowledge and creates a more truthful picture. Therefore, experience is a more superior asset when compared to imagination.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 378, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experiences'.
Suggestion: experiences
...his is true, it is also true that these past experiences of individuals who lived through that h...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, even so, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2507.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 493.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08519269777 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96867747137 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488843813387 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 811.8 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.5953058433 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.4230769231 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9615384615 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88461538462 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.164658578358 0.243740707755 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0487649747049 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.066263186697 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115333502335 0.150359130593 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101236268125 0.0667264976115 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.1392134831 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 100.480337079 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.