Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
It is debatable whether scientists and other researchers ought to concentrate on researching subjects that will have positive impacts on the greatest number of people. While it seems reasonable for scientists to focus on pratical researches, they should not limit their research topics on how many people will benefit from their research for several reasons.
To begin with, excessive emphasis on amelioration of a lot of people could have deleterious side effects. Many researchers are indeed interested in topics of which could have immense merits on numerous people. Thus, they are more likely to become narrow-minded and blinded to attain their intended results, even sometimes violating ethics. Little Albert experiment, for example, was an experiment that was a breakthrough in Psychology. It was an experiment which found out that fear and phobia could be learned, and it shed lights on many related theories; however, the subject, Albert, could not get over with his learned phobia against white furry objects and had to suffer for his entire life. Moreover, drugs and cosmetics tests on animals are widely done to prove effectiveness of products and detect possible drawbacks. For the benefit of the greatest number of people, a myriad of animals are suffering; in fact, US Food and Drug administration reported that 92 out of 100 fail on humans, which indicates serious waste and unethicalness. Because some scientists are obsessed with benefits to humans, they are apt to put other animals, or even humans in danger.
Furthermore, it cannot be exactly predicted if a particular research will reap benefits to a lot of people. Every research is based on hypothesis, not a fact. It is simply impossible for humans to accurately anticipate the outcomes. For instance, nuclear plants, although it has lots of possible benefits with its potential as an alternative energy, nuclear power can engender detriments as well. Therefore, the nature of the study is questionable-whether it is for the good or the bad. On the other side, researches conducted on brain study seems to have very dim future. Brain studies of dementia or other rare disorders are considered impractical and not applicable to a lot of people. Nonetheless, the study could branch out to explain more important features of human body and suggest some fundamentals of human anatomy which could be immensely beneficial to humanity.
Admittedly, with limited resources, it could be better to focus on researches on those areas that are more likely to benefit the greatest number of people. Science is a tool for enhancement of humanities after all. Nonetheless, with the name of effectiveness, science cannot neglect those few people suffering from rare conditions. Also, research on natural sciences are needed even though they do not seem practical since will all eventually be conducive to development of human society.
All in all, because of aforementioned reasons, scientists and other researchers should not only put emphasis on areas that have positive impacts to numerous people. The society should not be run only for the majority, and people should not overestimate their ability to predict the efficacy of research topics.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 511 350
No. of Characters: 2632 1500
No. of Different Words: 253 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.755 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.151 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.872 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 205 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 150 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 107 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 69 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.292 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.339 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.267 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.461 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.06 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'after all', 'even so', 'for example', 'for instance', 'in fact', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.238178633975 0.240241500013 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.134851138354 0.157235817809 86% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110332749562 0.0880659088768 125% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0630472854641 0.0497285424764 127% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0350262697023 0.0444667217837 79% => OK
Prepositions: 0.136602451839 0.12292977631 111% => OK
Participles: 0.0210157618214 0.0406280797675 52% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.96401597178 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0350262697023 0.030933414821 113% => OK
Particles: 0.00175131348511 0.0016655270985 105% => OK
Determiners: 0.0630472854641 0.0997080785238 63% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0332749562172 0.0249443105267 133% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.015761821366 0.0148568991511 106% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3217.0 2732.02544248 118% => OK
No of words: 511.0 452.878318584 113% => OK
Chars per words: 6.29549902153 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.58838876751 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.401174168297 0.366273622748 110% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.324853228963 0.280924506359 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.228962818004 0.200843997647 114% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.146771037182 0.132149295362 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96401597178 2.79330140395 106% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 219.290929204 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510763209393 0.48968727796 104% => OK
Word variations: 60.9534687217 55.4138127331 110% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.2916666667 23.380412469 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.2983406302 59.4972553346 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.041666667 141.124799967 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2916666667 23.380412469 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.708333333333 0.674092028746 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.21349557522 0% => OK
Readability: 53.7769895629 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.6992481203 1.64882698954 103% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.555805240337 0.391690518653 142% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.102652052545 0.123202303941 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0647219851488 0.077325440228 84% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.465840743758 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.14521121531 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.175555719552 0.161403998019 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111010078382 0.0892212321368 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.354457184396 0.385218514788 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0547114621063 0.0692045440612 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.378513935974 0.275328986314 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.070574366121 0.0653680567796 108% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88274336283 164% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.