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.
This is a controversial topic of whether people of similar mindsets help in the growth and better learning of an individual. This is based on the assumption that disagreement can induce stress and scotch learning. Indisputably, stress caused from the act of disagreement is bad and condemned. Nevertheless, there is no concrete evidence that this unwanted stress stops the process of learning in an individual. Thus, it is not surprising to disagree with the author's reason for their claims.
First of all, when encountered with different mindsets or opinions, people are forced to see the same things or situations from different perspectives. They are provided with different recounts of the same incident with a narrative that might fill some missing gaps they built their opinions upon. To illustrate, imagine a documentary showcasing the life cycle of a deer. While watching this documentary, people are sure to hate and resent the lion or any other predator that hunts these deer's. But when the same audience is shown another documentary on the life style of a lion or tiger, the very same process of hunting is met with encouragement and excitement. In both of these cases the incident is same but the narration and story depicted is different. Until both of the documentaries are watched it is not possible to form an opinion that is not colored or impartial. Hence, discussions with people of varied attitudes is important to form strong views.
Furthermore, a person's mental and physical comportment is decided by their social circle and kind of people they interact with. For example, consider a child growing up in a racist family and surrounded by friends and co-workers who not only resist interaction with the minorities but also refuse to empathize with their struggles. If this man is to enter other colleges or places where people are understanding and are victims to racism, he might be met with a lot of embarrassment and negative character impression. Having been groomed to follow only a few set of principles because of his social circle limits his interaction from the places outside his town or area. It could even be difficult to change his views and interact freely without serious help. This type of situations enhance the need for better and efficient communication of people with each other as a way to get ready to enter the real world.
Admittedly, the stress and humiliation the man might face from the above example can be great and drive him to find people of the same views, but it also provides him the chance to understand his fellow humans and turn a new leaf. Though this type of interaction does not guarantee a change immediately in individuals, it does provides them with a choice to improve and change for better. It is too easy to slip into the negative side rather than repudiating one's believes. This consequently divides up people and isolates some groups. When drove to extremes these isolated groups can also adopt violence to propagate their views and drive a even larger wall among the society. Hence, stress and fear of meeting with disappointment is not a valid reason for not encouraging people to mingle with groups with different backgrounds and needs to be avoided for a united society.
In conclusion, the notion that interaction with the same minded people being more ideal to avoid the stress that inhibits learning is a baseless statement made by the author. Unless the statement is modified or added with more data that backs this idea it is not best to accept the views of the author. In fact implementing these claims over people could result in more segregation and wars.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 14, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a person' or simply 'persons'?
Suggestion: a person; persons
...ant to form strong views. Furthermore, a persons mental and physical comportment is deci...
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Line 3, column 394, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...r other colleges or places where people are understanding and are victims to racism, he might be ...
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Line 3, column 486, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t be met with a lot of embarrassment and negative character impression. Having be...
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Line 3, column 556, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun set seems to be countable; consider using: 'few sets'.
Suggestion: few sets
...n. Having been groomed to follow only a few set of principles because of his social cir...
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Line 4, column 640, 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
...ence to propagate their views and drive a even larger wall among the society. Hen...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, if, nevertheless, so, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 35.0 14.8657303371 235% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 90.0 58.6224719101 154% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3029.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 613.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94127243067 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97582523872 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78800792542 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 304.0 215.323595506 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495921696574 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 948.6 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.6029599023 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.178571429 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8928571429 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.17857142857 5.21951772744 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 5.13820224719 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132029812605 0.243740707755 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0401491151994 0.0831039109588 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037124466224 0.0758088955206 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0908945973848 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0514789966343 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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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