The effectiveness of a country's leaders is best measured by examining the well-being of that country's citizens.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position

In this essay it will be defended that a leader’s effectiveness should be measured by looking at the well being of its population. Even though some critics might oppose this by saying that every person should only be individually be responsible for his own well-being, it is not at odds with the idea that a leader should provide the foundation for that.

First of all, the claim can be held because leaders of a country are supposed to serve its own people, instead of simply serving themselves. This is one of the main difference between a rogue state that is full of corruption, and more legitimate forms of government such as democracies. While this might sound somewhat idealistic to the critical listener, a leaders whose effectiveness is measured by the well-being of the country’s citizens is indeed incentivized to be less egoistic and rather concerned with the problems of the overall population.

After having established the theoretical framework why leader’s effectiveness should be measured by examining their effects on the population, it is also important why the well-being of the population should be focused on. Critics might argue that other measurements such as the GDP are more useful and easier to measure indicators of a leader’s effectiveness. However, it should be argued that a rising GDP is only considered positive because it is a mean to greater well-being. So why not measure well-being directly itself?

While the last paragraph has shown that measuring well-being is superior to other indicators, this paragraph opens the box of pandora of what well-being actually constitutes. Well-being is a holistic term, and can be broken into two sub-categories, such as physical and emotional well-being. To increase physical well-being a leader must fight absolute poverty. Every single person must have access to necessities such as food, shelter and water. If that is guaranteed, a good healthcare system may also increase well-being. Furthermore, a leader is incentivized to be peaceful and diplomatic, since wars could greatly diminish physical well-being of its population. Emotional well-being can be increased by relieving people from stress through providing a good childcare and pension system which will decrease their existential worries.

This essay has shown that a leader’s effectiveness is best measured by examining the well-being of that country's citizens by showing that leaders are supposed to serve the population instead of enriching themselves, by highlighting the advantage of a holistic measurement such as well-being over measurements such as GDP, and by giving various examples of how well-being can effectively be increased through certain policies. If we want to make the world a better place, we must judge our leaders not by their words or intentions, but simply by the outcomes of their rule on the well-being of its people as long as it does not come at the cost of someone else's well-being.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: a leader; leaders
...at idealistic to the critical listener, a leaders whose effectiveness is measured by the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ill decrease their existential worries. This essay has shown that a leader'...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...t the cost of someone elses well-being.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, well, while, such as, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 48.0 19.5258426966 246% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2519.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 472.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33686440678 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6610686524 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.19003851044 2.79657885939 114% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489406779661 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 765.0 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 88.1951574774 60.3974514979 146% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.944444444 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2222222222 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72222222222 5.21951772744 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
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: 0.28341392737 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104603775245 0.0831039109588 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0672562392866 0.0758088955206 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188479237441 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289330797926 0.0667264976115 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.1392134831 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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