People who are the most deeply committed to an idea or a policy are also most critical of it.
In modern society, people tend to gather around some ideas and policies. And the people who are most committed to these ideas are usually the loudest minority we hear the most. Are they the most critical of the idea or policy they are committed to? I would argue that they are mostly not.
On the one hand, people most committed to any idea are probably the ones who spent a decent amount of time thinking about it. And during this thinking, they are likely to explore the weakest points of the idea. For instance, AI risk researchers think a lot about AI timelines and they tend to be more critical of the possibility of Artificial Intelligence in the next few decades than most other pundits. So despite being the people most committed to the idea of creating the safe Artificial Intelligence those researchers are critical of this idea.
On the other hand, it is quite common that people who become committed to some idea or policy become completely ignorant of all of its criticism. This is especially the case with conspiracy theory people such as Flat Earth society. These people think that the Earth is flat and ignore every scientific fact that proves that the Earth is round. The more committed a person is to the idea of the flat Earth, the harder it becomes to convince him that there is a better theory that has more facts pointing towards it. This approach is the opposite of being critical of the idea.
Furthermore, there is a thing called sunk cost fallacy. It is a well-known cognitive bias that pushes people to continue doing what they are doing just because they invested a lot of time and effort in it. I think this fallacy also plays role in making people who are found of some ideas less critical of them: the more time person has invested in exploring some idea the harder it is to admit that the idea may be wrong and move to another one. For example, if the scientist has invested a lot of time and funds into researching the connection between a certain compound in the brain and Alzheimer's disease, it will be hard for him to accept the fact that there is no connection and all that time and money were mostly wasted on resarching the wrong direction. In this case, personal commitment stands in the way of the critical thinking approach that would suggest stopping wasting time and money, writing up the results of the study, and moving on to another research topic.
All things considered, I would conclude that this is a complex topic that has no single answer to it. There are some cases where most committed people are also most critical, but in general, this is not true. While we as a society would want the prompt to be true, human nature itself stands in our way, and it depends on our willpower if we can fight it or not.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, may, so, well, while, for example, for instance, i think, in general, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 33.0505617978 169% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2266.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 498.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55020080321 5.05705443957 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35840787572 2.79657885939 84% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44578313253 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 723.6 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.3805082994 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.904761905 118.986275619 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7142857143 23.4991977007 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90476190476 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less 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: 0.396591135526 0.243740707755 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139515977822 0.0831039109588 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131074223325 0.0758088955206 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.258043960167 0.150359130593 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127497146198 0.0667264976115 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.41 12.1639044944 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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