It is expected that there will be a higher proportion of older people than that of young people in many countries in the future. Do you think it is a positive or negative development?
Due to the decreased fertility rates in many countries, the proportion of elderly people keeps rising which has contributed to population aging. From my perspective, I believe that this phenomenon is causing more benefits than drawbacks.
To begin with, having an ageing population is often advantageous in terms of public security. As a general rule, it is likely that older communities will become more law abiding, since older people are less inclined to commit crimes which result in a little need for the government to allocate expenditure for prisons and policing costs. To be more specific, it is estimated that in 2012, crime rates for American individuals aged 18 to 21 were 17 times higher than for Americans aged 65 or older. Besides, compared with young people, retirees are more financially comfortable and find pleasure in voluntary work for the sake of the whole society, and thus, make several positive contributions to the community. For example, nowadays, there are more and more groups of elderly people established to provide free education for disadvantaged children or to clean the environment.
In addition, in terms of familial advantages, older people tend to play a role in supporting and maintaining family systems. For instance, elders are actually important in a time where the majority of children are raised by their grandparents due to the fact that their parents are busy working. Not only does it benefit grandparents directly who find that this is an important aspect of their lives, but also their grandchildren considerably. This is mainly because the elderly are familiar with traditional culture, they can uphold moral values to pass on to the younger generation. Hence, they play the key role in preservation of cultural identity, which is fading in the era of globalization.
In conclusion, the ageing population is often seen as a burden and their detrimental impact on the economy is exaggerated that causes their significant societal contributions to be overlooked. However, with all aforementioned reasons above, I tend to believe that a high proportion of older people is a positive development.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, hence, however, if, look, so, thus, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 343.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26530612245 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06102734337 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.586005830904 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.646777566 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.0 106.682146367 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5 20.7667163134 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.57142857143 7.06120827912 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.165741354533 0.244688304435 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.053967842793 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0546939765932 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10372918636 0.151304729494 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0399158132175 0.056905535591 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 13.0946893788 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.4159519038 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.61 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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