Research indicates that the characteristics we are born with have much more influence on our personality and development than any experience we may have in our life. Which do you consider to be the major influence?
Although a plethora of reputable scientists have established through life-long studies that our genes play a pivotal role in shaping our personality and development, an opposite view, nevertheless, exists within the scientific community itself. Perhaps we should scrutinize research methods they employed as well as consider examples from our society before drawing a conclusion.
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Sentence: Perhaps we should scrutinize research methods they employed as well as consider examples from our society before drawing a conclusion.
Description: The fragment they employed as is rare
Suggestion: Possible agreement error: Replace employed with verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive
Description: A conjunction, subordinating is not usually followed by a verb, base: uninflected present, imperative or infinitive
Suggestion: Refer to as and consider
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