We can usually 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

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We can usually 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.

There are various ways to learn something more: reading books, searching for the internet, and taking lectures. While discussing their own ideas is also a great method, confronting contradicting ideas is more helpful to learn something more compared to sharing similar ideas.
Firstly, contradicting ideas have a special power to attract people. When someone is talking about what one has already considered, the one might expect that will not differ from what they thought and easily lose his or her interest. In contrast, for contradicting ideas, people are likely to concentrate on them to analyze how different ideas have come. As they put more attention to the different, refreshing ideas, there is a high possibility to learn something more. Thus, contradicting views are more advantageous in learning.
Secondly, a discussion of different ideas is beneficial in learning something new. When some even think their ideas are perfect, there might be flaws they never thought of. When arguing against those who have contradicting ideas, they can realize their unwarranted opinions and refine them stronger. Also, while sharing different opinions, they have chances to broaden their perspectives to fields they could not consider. In contrast, for similar views, there is a lack of opportunity to consider other possible sides. Hence, learning from contradicting views is much more than from similar views.
On the other hand, some people consider arguing against contradicting ideas are full of stress, so they rather escape from it. Or perhaps they just pretend they are listening to it while they are not concentrating on a presentation. For these kinds of people, the learning effect of contradicting ideas cannot be expected. However, there are not many people who always reject to consider disparate ideas.
To sum up, those who can accept and examine different ideas have great chances to learn more from contradicting views while others cannot expect this merit. Although it can be different for individuals, in general, contradicting ideas will provide higher learning chances.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, while, in contrast, in general, talking about, to sum up, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 58.6224719101 65% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1773.0 2235.4752809 79% => OK
No of words: 327.0 442.535393258 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42201834862 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82882386867 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 215.323595506 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519877675841 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 540.0 704.065955056 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.5881236937 60.3974514979 49% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.3157894737 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2105263158 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63157894737 5.21951772744 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => 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: 0.187225458807 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0724277173846 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0656890054003 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123881991136 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.016256730876 0.0667264976115 24% => 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: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 100.480337079 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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