We can learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
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 you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
To best learn one should glean from eclectic information. Yet, this does still leave open the question of whether or not those who you agree with, or disagree with, are most effective a having information imbibed into you. The prompt suggests that it is those who you have the most in common that can more effectively teach you, however I would dispute that. I would say that those who you disagree with in general can teach you more than those you agree with, and for this I present 3 reasons.
To begin consider the problem of information overlap. For those who you agree with you by definition share the same views; views for which are the result of postulates, or ideals, you believe to be true. When ideologically similar people tend to know the same set of facts, because no coincidently those facts are what shaped their belief in the first place. For instance, consider two people who are both say socialists. Two socialists would generally believe that wealth inequality is a systematic flaw in capitalism that is the result of class oppression, rather than some inherent human inequity of skill. They could potentially base this view on children being born to wealthy families tending to have more successful futures than those born to poor families. The problem with this, is it ignores one critical fact, namely that those who are smarter, tend to be wealther and tend to have smarter kids. So, due to their beliefs being so similar they are missing information, that if they had someone from with another view would not have been overlooked. Moveover they actually gain little by talking to eachother about the topic, since they both already know the facts that support their point of view.
Furthermore, listening only to people who agree with you can make you complacent. We as humans require constant mental challenge to keep us sharp. The most effective way of doing this is through challenging our held beliefs. Only by having our assumptions and ideals questioned can we really understand why they are true so, and understand their finer details. Consider a man who has all his life believed that eating in public is wrong. He believes it to be wrong, because his mother taught him it was wrong, and her mother before her. This man can go his entire life never understanding, or even thinking about why he thinks it is disrespectful, if he is never challenged. Moreover, if he was challenged he would be required to think why he believes it is disrespectful, why it ought to be discouraged. Only by being questioned on his belief can a induced need to truely understand the things one believes come into being, thus allowing them to learn at a more indepth level.
Adding on to this, only through challenge can we even know when are beliefs are wrong. It was assumed with the last example that the man would come to the conclusion that eating in public was rude, however that isn't necessarily true. I would say most people in the west do not consider eating in public rude, but without a challenge the man very could go his entire life never even questioning what he had been taught. A challenge from opposition can give arguments that the man has never heard of, ones that someone who agrees with would not know. Arguments that in particular can show a man he is wrong, which is something that can only be taught from those whom you disagree with.
In conclusion, it can be generally said that a mixture of both Pro and Con points of view is the superior way to learn, if you only could have one, a view contrary to your own is better for learning. This is because with people you disagree with, you can be taught where you are wrong, they induce you to understand why you believe the things you do, and finally you are kept sharp.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, really, so, still, thus, for instance, in conclusion, in general, in particular, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 43.0 19.5258426966 220% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 33.0 11.3162921348 292% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 104.0 33.0505617978 315% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3099.0 2235.4752809 139% => OK
No of words: 663.0 442.535393258 150% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.6742081448 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.07432619952 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49167880959 2.79657885939 89% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438914027149 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 945.9 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 8.0 1.77640449438 450% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.8149482002 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.862068966 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8620689655 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.93103448276 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304260801581 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0883521676864 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0930025960854 0.0758088955206 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203881391712 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0849217131926 0.0667264976115 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.1392134831 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 48.8420337079 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.35 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => 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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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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