The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists but by the general welfare of its people Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement a

There has never been a single collective metric to judge a country's progress. Statistical measures like GDP or Population Density often conceal the plight of the general public, despite boasting great statistical numbers. The prompt establishes a nation’s rulers, artists or scientists as an effective metric to judge a nation’s ‘collective’ progress. However, I seem to mostly disagree with the message being conveyed by the prompt, because of the following outlined reasons.

Firstly, with increasing population growth and thus due to the ever increasing versatile and dynamic nature of employment opportunities, it becomes tough to cherry-pick one or maybe two as the ones which are able to justify a nation’s progress as is. Even history provides unanimous examples to support this assertion. For instance, in medieval India, the rulers often used to keep the ‘artists’ & ‘scientists’ really close to their court. Despite the happiness and agreement of the scientists & artists with the ruler, the common people often used to be in a pitiable plight. This just establishes the fact that a country’s overall developmental growth has little to do with ‘only’ science or art or even the governance for that matter. This only lays more stress on governing & checking how the people who often stay away from these ‘lucrative’ job positions, make their ends meet. A collective summation of all the population of a region could thus serve as a better metric in order to judge a nation’s progress.

Furthermore, the prompt mentions ‘achievements’ by the rulers, scientists & artisans as the ideal measure as a good indicator of the quality of life of the commonplace. The rhetoric in itself looks flawed. If we want to take a deeper perspective, we could observe that there have been nations that have boasted about the spendings on their ‘defense’, ‘nuclear arsenal’ or even the quality of art they possess, but it hides the plight of the rest of the people that comprise of the ‘millions’ of people that reside in the nation. History has proven that countries that have asserted dominance in defense & nuclear warfare, take somewhat less than even an hour to turn into a ‘force’ that once existed. A good example to judge this could be the people of North Korea, a vigilant & strong armed force, the rulers leading from the front, but the people of the nation have absolutely no liberty to choose anything. Thus, it can be learned that the assumption that a nation that possesses dominant rulers or an expensive nuclear arsenal, is obviously a giant, fails to hold true quite often.

However, some people may argue and show statistics of how the ‘P5’ nations or even the ‘G7’ nations often look to bolster their ruler’s strengths or look to improve upon their existing measures of art & culture, and they are actually the dominant forces. But, if you consider these particular nations, they would also seem to lay ‘equal’ emphasis on other aspects like technology or renewable energy resources or even the scale of poverty.

Therefore, it could be established that a single metric on its own is insufficient to predict a country’s progress, but it is indeed a really convoluted process that statisticians and visionaries are still looking to predict. Thus, there need to be more scientifically backed studies & researches that could collectively include all possible parameters that may determine a nation’s progress accurately.

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Average: 9.2 (2 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 163, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...Density often conceal the plight of the general public, despite boasting great statistical num...
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Line 5, column 466, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...e plight of the rest of the people that comprise of the ‘millions’ of people that reside in...
^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, look, may, really, so, still, therefore, thus, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2944.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 557.0 442.535393258 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28545780969 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0468161629 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 298.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535008976661 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 884.7 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5567461157 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.19047619 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5238095238 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.80952380952 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
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: 0.172126443635 0.243740707755 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460101596076 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356442493972 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0849009861587 0.150359130593 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0261461901896 0.0667264976115 39% => 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: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 156.0 100.480337079 155% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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