Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear
(This took me more than 30 mins)
Universities around the world are competing to obtain the predicate, ‘a research university’. Why do universities care so much? Whatever the proper answer would be, there is a key step that we need to consider when talking about research; that is funding. The prompt recommends government to not allocate public funds to scientific research that has to ‘clear’ pragmatism. Although this suggestion may actually provide some insights, I argue that a direct practicality of a scientific research should not be held against it in terms of funding the research; for two reasons.
First, the nature of scientific research may not be practically useful during its discovery. However, time may reveal its direct potential to society. For example, the discovery of battery happened in the period where steam machinery dominated the world. The scientists of the time did not have a vision to change internal-combustion-engine cars into electric; even cars were not even been invented yet. The scientist had the option to build a better and more efficient steam machine, but what they did was to seek out and expand our knowledge in science. Today, batteries exists in millions! The total world population is approximately 8 billion people, and it is safe to say millions have access to cell phones. You’ve guessed correctly; cell phones are powered by batteries.
Second, research represents the quality of education. For example, places that are known for good education have the best research opportunities, one of them is the United States. Schools around the country have endowments of billions of dollars. Best belief, many of those dollars would go toward funding the research that their faculty is doing. Seeing American universities rank in the highest table compared to other countries, many start taking into account the aspect of research in the education system. Moreover, a bachelor’s degree in science requires a senior research project with a chosen faculty. This is to apply what one have learned from courses into reality. Therefore, limiting research funds to universities and institution defeats this purpose.
Of course, one can argue that the government has limited funding and there are many funding ‘sinks’ to be filled. Hence, funding research that is not necessarily useful would be the wise thing to do. However, we need to take into account that the amount of monetary resource the government has, is not in particularly small. Therefore, funding in research should not be based on its pragmatism.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 248, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[4]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: ' the Best'.
Suggestion: The Best
...have endowments of billions of dollars. Best belief, many of those dollars would go ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, as to, for example, in particular, of course, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2166.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 410.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28292682927 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98271841802 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570731707317 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 40.0676294601 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.25 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0833333333 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.79166666667 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241453432544 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0695436070564 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0774672133397 0.0758088955206 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129599515275 0.150359130593 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.10183975078 0.0667264976115 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.1392134831 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => 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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