59. Scientists and other researchers should focus their research on areas that are likely to benefit the greatest number of people.
The author claims that scientists and researchers should be dedicated to conducting researches that create benefits for many people as possible. While it may be true that profitable scientific researches play a remarkable role for the betterment of society, ones that seem trivial on the surface can also take an important role in making advances in some aspects of society.
Admittedly, it seems plausible that scientists and researchers should consider the practical value of their work. Human beings have been able to make a significant progress in their quality of lifestyles through scientific researches that are applicable to everyday products that people frequently use. For example, electrical lightbulb that Thomas Edison invented in the past has enabled people to efficiently lit up their surroundings and brought tremendous changes in industry and our everyday life. Inventions like electrical lightbulb permeate almost every aspect of our life that if it were not for the pragmatical researches that have been made throughout the history, we would not be able to lead such a convenient life as we do today. Successful practical researches show that it is important for scientists and researchers to benefit the society they belong to focusing on extensively applicable researches.
However, researchers should also be encouraged to work on solving problems that might not be applicable to wide range of people in the world. For instance, some researchers strive to find treatments for incurable diseases such as AIDS, which only few people in the world suffer from. From a monetary point of view, these works do not worth much. However, preservation of humanistic values are what people around the world commonly perceive as one of the important characteristics that a healthy society should have. Researchers who work out of humanitarianism to help minorities are true heroes that makes the world a better place. In this sense, the researches targeted to minorities but of low practical value are also essential.
Furthermore, in some cases, researches that seemed trivial at the beginning later turned out to be of great practical importance. For example, in 2019, 3 scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize for doing researches suggesting the basic principles of lithium-ion battery operation. Their work were made 40 years ago from now, and their researches seemed unfeasible at the time they were published. Through several years of additional academic efforts by the 3 scientists to realize their initial theory, lithium-ion is now ruling the battery industry. Considering that seemingly insignificant work at first can later become what can change the world, scientists should not be discouraged to do researches that do not seem to benefit many people.
In summary, the author’s opinion that scientists and researchers should be devoted to making researches that maximize the benefits of many people is rational to some extent. As discussed, however, it is necessary for the world to encourage researchers to put effort on seemingly theoretical works that might be meaningful in terms of humanitarianism or potentially have wide practical use in the future.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'significant progress'.
Suggestion: significant progress
...rk. Human beings have been able to make a significant progress in their quality of lifestyles through ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, while, for example, for instance, in summary, such as, in some cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2699.0 2235.4752809 121% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41967871486 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03386011355 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495983935743 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 829.8 704.065955056 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6480832018 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.95 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05 5.21951772744 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.296263058053 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109772350588 0.0831039109588 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0803259503959 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.189524469356 0.150359130593 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038981574191 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.45 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.