Claim We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from those whose views contradict our own Reason Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Claim: We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from those
whose views contradict our own.

Reason: Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning.

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 author argues that people learn much more from like minded people than they do with whom they contradict their views.
The author states that disagreement can cause stress and thus inhibit learning as a reason. However, I think
poeple get to learn more from people who contradict their views than otherwise.

First, it is when our knowledge is opposed by others, only then we will be able to introspect our understanding.
It is with these encounters that people generally ponder on the validity of their knowledge. When a person's knowledge
is called into question, the person can have an healthy debate and thus learn from the opposite person if s/he feels
that they are actually wrong. Even if the person is correct, the argument will encourage the person to think
in new ways so as to convince the listener that s/he is wrong. This process of contemplating will actually help
the person to gain a better understanding of the subject.

Second, though on first encounter with dissenter creates a stress and inhibits learning, but as the time passes and one starts to
comtemplate on the subject, the analytical thinking of the person imporves. If we try to learn from someone who shares similar
views, one doesn't have to think over in order to accept what is being told. One stays in their comfort zone
and blindly accepts them without any reasoning. On the other hand, the listener is forced to come out of their comfort zone
and put his/her brain to work to analyze the arguments that someone puts infront of them. This way, we are not only learning
but also training our brain to analyze the future arguments more analytically.

Third, when people are involed in a debate, people feel more intimate than when one have discussion with a like minded person.
People with opposite views, though appear amicable to the outside world, actually defer each other. Each one will be eagerly
waiting for a debate as they love the process of discussion which involves patiently listening, analyzing, counter questioning etc.

Having said that, arguing with one whose views are contrary to ours can prove to be determintal sometimes. If we have to
work with such a person to get a project done, most of the time would get wasted resolving these conflicts. There can be
cases where we are sure that the person is wrong and if the person also believes the same, then the there is no way the
project can move forward. In this scenario, the author's claim that disagreement could cause stress and inhibit learning
definetly holds true.

Thus, one can learn from a person with contrary views more than from a person of similar views because it stimulates introspecting
one's own knowledge, develops analytical thinking and can help develop a healthy relationship in which one respects the other.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 100, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...the validity of their knowledge. When a persons knowledge is called into question, the...
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Line 7, column 46, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...lled into question, the person can have an healthy debate and thus learn from the ...
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Line 7, column 117, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n from the opposite person if s/he feels that they are actually wrong. Even if th...
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Line 9, column 13, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ourage the person to think in new ways so as to convince the listener that s/he is wron...
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Line 14, column 12, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... someone who shares similar views, one doesnt have to think over in order to accept w...
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Line 15, column 4, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ld. One stays in their comfort zone and blindly accepts them without any reasoni...
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Line 23, column 121, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... be determintal sometimes. If we have to work with such a person to get a project...
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Line 25, column 120, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...s the same, then the there is no way the project can move forward. In this scenar...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, thus, as to, i think, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2361.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 475.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97052631579 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66845742379 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5091292593 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486315789474 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5913059989 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.428571429 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.619047619 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 25.0 4.97078651685 503% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.295552963635 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921012373882 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801418773901 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0835114124189 0.150359130593 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0825043468266 0.0667264976115 124% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, second, so, then, third, thus, as to, i think, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments