The claim seems at first glance to be a defense of autocratic government, a system that ignores the will of the majority in favor of a ruling elite. Certainly I reject such a system, and I am suspicious of its trappings. However, I also feel that in some cases, experts are far better equipped than the average person to make decisions. The remaining decisions, particularly those which have immediate consequences for public welfare, should depend on a popular vote. Thus, policy-making should be divided into, on the one hand, long term policies that demand the complex forecasting of government experts, and on the other hand, short-term policies whose effects the public can judge quite accurately.
The first reason I have such a view is that government experts are Better-suited to decide long-term policies. These experts have done extensive research in their fields and can make long-term predictions accurately. For example, government experts can make better decisions about national science policy because they can make detailed projections about the expected funding costs and material benefits of research investments. Monetary policies, such as interest rate and inflation control, are also best left to government experts. Those with a solid understanding of mathematical models of economics can make long-range calculations that are beyond the understanding of the common person.
Decisions that have more immediate consequences, meanwhile, should be put to a public vote. If the government could set the tax rate as high as it wanted to in order to increase revenues, public dissatisfaction would skyrocket as citizens' budgets were stripped. If taxes were removed, people would see their favorite publicly funded programs disappear. Citizens have an intuitive sense of how the tax rate will affect spending, public programs, and general welfare, so they are best-suited to this decision. The same is true for drug policy, which can have short-term effects of either widespread
imprisonment or public treatment and rehabilitation, depending on the policy.
Most policies do have effects that are immediately understood, and thus fall into the second group described above. Hence, decisions made by government experts should be reserved to those few that do require long-distance calculations. Of course, an argument could be made that almost every decision has long-term effects. Still, those effects are often closely tied with the immediate consequences that citizens can intuitively understand. Since governments will try to overreach in their decision-making, we should make sure that the distinctions outlined here are clearly codified
in a constitution and in other law books. In this way we can maintain a society that integrates the will of the people with the judgment of experts.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, however, if, second, so, still, thus, while, for example, of course, such as, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2384.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 435.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.48045977011 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56690854021 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04878725275 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55632183908 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 744.3 704.065955056 106% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4758351086 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.523809524 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.19047619048 5.21951772744 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126007861686 0.243740707755 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0392449516369 0.0831039109588 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0355499273266 0.0758088955206 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0662384065118 0.150359130593 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0330929896795 0.0667264976115 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.5 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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