Some people believe that a person’s intelligence is inherited from the parents, while others believe that their environment is the main factor. Discuss these views. Which factor do you think is mostly responsible for intelligence?

The intellectual development of people has always been a puzzling question. Some people claim that one’s intelligence is transmitted genetically, while others think that intellectual abilities depend on the environment. These two sides will be discussed in this essay.

On the one hand, it seems quite logical that a child’s intellectual abilities are defined by the combination of genes and thus inherited from their parents like appearance and traits of character. Furthermore, having conducted research, scientists proved that the total number of around 500 genes is responsible for the development of the brain and its work. Apart from that, it is quite true that many generations of talented scientists, diplomats, and writers come from one family. For instance, Mikhalkov-Konchalovskiy family in Russia produced many renowned actors and movie directors.

Conversely, there are many cases when children born from normal parents spent their early years in the wild and turned into Mauglis, unable to speak, leave alone communicate with others, as they were surrounded only by animals. For this reason, the environment seems to be quite important in one’s development. Moreover, gifted kids often come from a poor or ordinary background. For example, a famous Russian scientist and philosopher Mikhail Lomonosov, who made an outstanding contribution to the scientific development of the country in the 18th century, was from a peasant family. Nevertheless, he devoted a lot of time to studying both in Russia and abroad, which indeed was essential for broadening outlook and expanding horizons. If a peasants’ son could become one of the greatest scientists in history, any child, despite the genes they inherited, can develop necessary skills and even talents when being put in the right environment.

To conclude, I believe that while genes do transmit a part of intellect from parents to children, the environment is what plays a decisive role in one’s intellectual development.

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Average: 8.9 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, furthermore, if, look, moreover, nevertheless, so, thus, while, apart from, for example, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1713.0 1615.20841683 106% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56168831169 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23882636229 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.63961038961 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 524.7 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.6866161363 49.4020404114 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.357142857 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.42857142857 7.06120827912 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.208105886624 0.244688304435 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0660665377413 0.084324248473 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0552642761226 0.0667982634062 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134758006634 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0457866761498 0.056905535591 80% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 13.0946893788 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.65 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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