Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Research conducted in any field by scientists or other scholars is done with the purpose of contributing to the existing knowledge base of the subject. It is likely to help the community in various ways but it is hard to qualify research on the basis of benefit accrued to the largest number of people.
To begin with, the idea of benefiting the largest number of people is ambiguous in itself. It is difficult to define in rigid terms what qualifies as benefits to the community. There can be different view and opinions regarding potential benefits and a lot of varied research studies can co-exist in this umbrella of different definitions. Also, quantification of what qualifies as greatest number of people is an undefined territory which is open to interpretation.
There are various areas in which research is conducted and the respective reasons for the same can also vary immensely. In the liberal arts research can focus on understanding the underlying themes prevalent in the music, literature, architecture etc of the centuries gone by as well as contemporary themes in a quest to better understand and build upon the workings of the aesthetic mind. Such research might not have very apparent benefits to the society but can be invaluable to people whose interest lies in studies of the culture we have inherited or live in. Scientific research can also be involved in various themes ranging from understanding evolutionary studies, to the study of medicinal sciences and finding possible causes and cures of fatal diseases, as well as finding technological advancements which can make the life of human beings easier. Not all studies may have direct benefits to society but each research is a building block in laying the foundation of human understanding, which can be built upon to further benefits to the human cause. Similarly, many studies focusing on futuristic areas may not seem extremely relevant in the present times but their true worth might be realized years down the line.
Also, following this utilitarian tent of maximizing benefit for the maximum number of people is a very naive way to understand the purpose of research. It severely restricts the functions that research can play in contributing to society. As far as research is concerned in the social sciences, there are various issues concerning social ills like illiteracy, poverty, poor healthcare, gender inequality etc. which concern themselves with benefiting people in a more direct manner. But there are also several minority communities like the elderly, immigrants, single mothers, mentally challenged etc. which will effectively be left out if research were to only focus on benefiting larger numbers.
In conclusion, the research studies conducted by scientists and scholars need not define any rigid definition of benefiting the largest number of people as it is very difficult to define what constitutes as benefits, it ignores the indirect and spillover effect that research can have, and it seriously ignores the role research should play in contributing to the minority communities of our society.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ies like the elderly, immigrants, single mothers, mentally challenged etc. which ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, regarding, similarly, so, well, in conclusion, as well as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 33.0505617978 48% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => 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: 2613.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 499.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23647294589 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72634191566 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94544596029 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486973947896 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 831.6 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 80.1032228802 60.3974514979 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.526315789 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2631578947 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84210526316 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264616359899 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0918754032239 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429966842217 0.0758088955206 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164888119198 0.150359130593 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0295743692708 0.0667264976115 44% => 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: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 100.480337079 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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