Discussing controversial topics with those with contrasting views is not useful because very few people change their mind when questioned about their core beliefs.
Any one who has ever had or witnessed a debate on topics suchs as wheter the earth is round or flat, whether vaccine causes autism, or the validity of xenophobia, they would likely conlude that those debates rarely end with a concession from either side. Discussing controversial topics with those contrasting views can be tiresome and frustrating. However, those discussions are useful in other ways even if few people change their minds when questioned about their core beliefs.
The main purpose of a discussion is edification. It should be a learning experience from all party involved rather than proselytizing. Even if one cannot convince a mother to vaccinate her newborn, one would gain insights as to why some people are against innoculation. Failure to convert someone does not equate futility.
The conclusion of a discussion does not mean someone stops thinking about it. The effect of words exchange continues consciously and/or subconciously long after someone leaves the room in a huff. The term "core belief" indicates that it would be difficult and time consuming to change that belief. Therefore, starting one dicussion on a controversial topics is similar to knocking down the first smallest domino tile and waiting to see its effect down the line.
What if the the discussion about vaccination you have today with Mia is the final domino piece that knocks down her conviction about the correlation between vaccination and autism? It would most likely save Mia's children from preventable diseases. Mia would then contribute to changing other people's minds and start her own domino effects. A discussion might not yeild obvious results in the moment, but when it does, it the consequences that follow can be tremendous.
It is tempting to avoid a discussion with someone whose beliefs are already entrenched. Such discussions can be infurriating and exhausting. Nevertheless, they are anything but useless. Communication is never useless because in the end, everyone learns something from it.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Anyone'?
Suggestion: Anyone
Any one who has ever had or witnessed a debate ...
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Line 5, column 197, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...fter someone leaves the room in a huff. The term 'core belief' indicates ...
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Line 5, column 362, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'topic'?
Suggestion: topic
...arting one dicussion on a controversial topics is similar to knocking down the first s...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ee its effect down the line. What if the the discussion about vaccination you have t...
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Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ee its effect down the line. What if the the discussion about vaccination you have t...
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Line 7, column 386, Rule ID: IN_THE_MOMENT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at the moment' (=currently)?
Suggestion: at the moment
...cussion might not yeild obvious results in the moment, but when it does, it the consequences ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 58.6224719101 63% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1712.0 2235.4752809 77% => OK
No of words: 321.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33333333333 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93714130425 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.616822429907 0.4932671777 125% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.1820930424 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.1052631579 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8947368421 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42105263158 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34432282149 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0871053165256 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12106355706 0.0758088955206 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169050732368 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.152482520441 0.0667264976115 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'Anyone'?
Suggestion: Anyone
Any one who has ever had or witnessed a debate ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 197, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...fter someone leaves the room in a huff. The term 'core belief' indicates ...
^^^
Line 5, column 362, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'topic'?
Suggestion: topic
...arting one dicussion on a controversial topics is similar to knocking down the first s...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...ee its effect down the line. What if the the discussion about vaccination you have t...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...ee its effect down the line. What if the the discussion about vaccination you have t...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 386, Rule ID: IN_THE_MOMENT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at the moment' (=currently)?
Suggestion: at the moment
...cussion might not yeild obvious results in the moment, but when it does, it the consequences ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 58.6224719101 63% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1712.0 2235.4752809 77% => OK
No of words: 321.0 442.535393258 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33333333333 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.55969084622 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93714130425 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.616822429907 0.4932671777 125% => OK
syllable_count: 530.1 704.065955056 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.38483146067 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.1820930424 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.1052631579 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8947368421 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42105263158 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34432282149 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0871053165256 0.0831039109588 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12106355706 0.0758088955206 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169050732368 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.152482520441 0.0667264976115 229% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.1392134831 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 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.