as people rely more and more on technology to solve problems, the ability of humans to think for themselves will surely deteriorate.
Proponents of technology have regularly claimed that the advent of technological devices such as smartphones and tablets, and phenomena such as the Internet and Google has resulted in the flourishing of our potentials and abilities. Even though these claims might be true to an extent, a review of research published on the effect of technology on our cognitive abilities show that our mental abilities have significantly decreased during the past half-century.
First, it is known that pleasure reading has a significant role in our cognitive abilities and burgeons skills such as imagining and induction. Studies show that excessive reliance on technology among the younger generation has lowered the average reading hours for them and this is alarming. Nowadays, the main form of media consumed by younger people is in the form of visual media such as movies and video games. Even though visual media is easier to imbibe, it is detrimental to cognitive abilities such as creative thinking because of the very fact that there is no content left to think about; all the material are readily offered to the audience. Classrooms today heavily rely on visual media such as PowerPoint presentations and graphical content but it is necessary to make a balance between new forms of content and classical techniques. When students are taught using instruments such as the classical whiteboard, they need to make an effort to picture the content taught and this will help them with certain mental skills.
Secondly, current technology necessitates multi-tasking abilities. When using your smartphone to look up how to draw a ternary phase diagram, you may face the ads for the current price of Bitcoin, receive Facebook messages and get a video call from your aunt in Skype. This nature of technology makes it difficult to concentrate on a task that needs your complete attention. Even though multi-tasking is an important mental ability, there is a limit to the extent that we can play along. In a study, a group of students had access to the internet during a lecture and a control group did not. Both groups were examined to measure the amount of information had been gained. The group without access to the internet performed better. This simple study shows the importance of the lack of multi-tasking during tasks that need concentration.
With all the harm that technology has caused our mental skills, research shows that it has been beneficial for visual intelligence. Reviewing the data from the past decades, we see that now visual intelligence stays unchanged as one ages, contrary to before the age of the internet which it decreased with age.
All in all, even though technology has had certain benefits in the society, relying merely on it can cause severe damage to our abilities that make us human.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2352.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 462.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09090909091 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81991355283 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515151515152 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 738.9 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
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: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3393971544 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.789473684 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3157894737 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.94736842105 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.120862979943 0.243740707755 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0354890055375 0.0831039109588 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0323158570703 0.0758088955206 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.071592918219 0.150359130593 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326022522461 0.0667264976115 49% => 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: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 100.480337079 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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.