We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
The statement asserts that people are always learning more from those whose idea are in accord with them, while the discord always pose detrimental effects towards the learning progress. I concede that the undue disagreement may cause stress and inhibit learning, however, listen to the contradicting view and discussed it with those dissidents will provide the controversial topic with more knowledge and a broader spectrum of perspective.
People always prefers to communicate with those who have similar ideas, as it’s easier to understand each other without persuading the different points toilsomely. It is understandable that the people are more willing to listen the advice from those with akin views. If one had loved classical music and dreamed to become a pianist, he would look for the help and advice of the masters in his area. Additionally, the same or analogous views form others will give people more confidence to stick on what they are endeavoring. This supports and acclaims may induce them to make more progress.
However, only listening to praises will have some deteriorated aspects, one of which is that people would ignore their drawbacks and disregard any critics. Khrushchev, one of presidents of the Soviet Union, was the one who was surrounded by accolade and heard little dissent voice. This tribute misled him about the situation of the nation that time and made him a false decision. A president, when listening only to those who share the views, will make mistake, let alone our pedestrians. And if one wants to avoid such mistakes, he should listen to more contradictory voices.
Different views will bring different prospective around a topic, which combining of can bring a more comprehensive understanding. Sometimes we can only look at one side of a problem, and if we don’t communicate with those who have distinctive views, we may ignore other equally important aspects of the problem. Debating, which is a popular activity around both universities and companies, is always set on two side of a topic which a team choose one of and defend. By defence of own opinion and communication of other’s team, the audience and the speakers can capture more knowledge about the topic. And in most cases, there are not merely one right answer, and listening to others who have contradictory opinions will help to broaden horizon.
In sum, I must acknowledge that we can learn a lot from those who share the views with us, while we can also learn equally abundance of knowledge from those who have distinctive views with us. The world is colorful and multidimensional, and listening to different opinions may accede the pace of understanding the world with an all-encompassed spectrum.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, so, while, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2295.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 445.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15730337079 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59293186426 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9189220694 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519101123596 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 725.4 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6148115174 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.789473684 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4210526316 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.10526315789 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.257079182949 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0717596787433 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790360337544 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148976369424 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0633582431727 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => 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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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.