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.
As we go along, we meet many people of which, some of them have the same view as we have on a particular subject while others have a contradictory view. The prompt suggests that we learn more from people who share a similar view than from those people who have a contrasting view. I personally feel that we indeed learn more from the people who challenge our views than from those whose views are in congruous with our views for the following reasongs.
Firstly, we can fully understand the merit of something we know when we can convince those people who hold an opposing view about it. People who oppose one's view bring straight to the table of discussion - disagreement. So, it is like firing a challenge to me to convince them that they are wrong. When we start discussion about a topic through ratiocination, one can learn the merits and demerits of what he/she believes in. As a result, if the person is right, he/she will better realize the merits of what they believe in and on the contrary, if the person discovers that he/she is wrong, they will be presented with a better opportunity to learn from the contradictory views. On the other hand, if I hold a discussion about a topic with a friend who shares the same view, it is guaranteed that I will definitely not know the fallacious in what I believe and therefore, there will not be much to learn from him/her for two reasons - one, I would not have to think much to convince him of my views and so, learning is precluded and two, I will not be challenged hence, there won't much to debate on. Therefore, we learn more from those who hold an opposing view.
Secondly, throughout different systems in our society, people with opposing views are deliberately given importance rather than secluding them so that they can point out the shortcomings in a plan and keep them vigilant about the possible mishaps. For instance, let us take the example of a democratic system of government. In a democracy, the party with the majority seats forms the government and the party with lesser seats form the opposition. As the government puts up various bills for ordinance during the parliment seession, the representatives on both sides of aisle debate on the merits and demerits of the bills. The country by watching these debates get to know th merits and the demerits of the bills. On the contrary, if there is no opposition in the parliment to challenge the bills, the country would not definitely know the shortcomings and may fall into a snare that the passed bills are benevolent to them where infact the bills serve only the elite few. Hence, it is pertinent that people with opposing views are encouraged to participate in a system rather than osctrazing them.
However, in the realms of our discussion, we cannot overlook a few exceptions. There might be some people with opposing views to not to cede even in the light of blatantly visible evidence that shows they are ludicrouslly wrong. Discussion with such people will only sap our energy without any fruitful learning from them.
To recapitulate, we tend to learn more from people who opppose our views.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance, as a result, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 33.0505617978 200% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2588.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 546.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.73992673993 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83390555256 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65839526289 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434065934066 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 796.5 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 84.2570572752 60.3974514979 140% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.238095238 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.04761904762 5.21951772744 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => 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: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.360647820778 0.243740707755 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121467892997 0.0831039109588 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100384562822 0.0758088955206 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.229753846205 0.150359130593 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0982332695803 0.0667264976115 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.8420337079 110% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.1639044944 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => 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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