"We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose
views contradict our own."; disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning."
Do we actually learn from facts presented or described in literature or from when these facts are challenged? The prompt suggests that people having similar thoughts learn more from each other than when their thoughts are contradictory. In my opinion, I moderately disagree from the suggestion and argue that contradictory suggests or debates often plays important roles and advances learning for following two reasons.
Admittingly, contradictory views as in debates or competitions, can impede learning by discouraging the person if something went wrong. But, at the same time considering the contradictory views, learning and improving upon oneself can advance thinking processes. This can also lead to new establishments. For example, initially earth was considered to be stable around which various planets and the sun was thought to revolve. But with upcoming techniques, scientists debated and questioned the fact for earth to be stable. With various validations, later on it was proved that earth revolves around sun with other planets and the sun is a star which is stable. This became apparent only when older facts were questioned and based on those new facts were searched and proven. Although, major scientists were in favour of former example, but the person concerned for later example must have worked hard to oppose those contradictory views. The above example illustrates that, contradiction can discourage for some time but brings learning as a long-term perspective.
Further, economic policies are made based on various arguments and solutions to various problems on a single table. In UN assemblies, the agenda is decided based on recent progresses. Even draft is often made on a single table to reach to a conclusion for a global issue. Interestingly, various treaties such as for global warming reduction was signed among various countries to replenish or further stop the deterioration of ozone layer by cumulative agreement. The major step was to reduce emission of Chlorofluorocarbons and look for safe or green solutions. This step could have many contradictory views but with various discussions and meetings the issue was resolved and treaty was signed. Hence, sitting together with people having contradictory views often adds something to our ever-increasing knowledge.
On the other hand, this can sometimes discourage and impede learning. One can look no farther than a television. Usually on media channels, politicians are found fighting with each other without bothering to listen to the views of another person. Often this could lead to hourly fights with no conclusion. In such cases, discouragement occurs and no learning could be inculcated in people who have been debating or in the views as well. Rather, such types of fights can have negative impact on the society as a whole. Therefore, debates with good speakers as well as good listeners do bring healthy conclusions but opposite to that could be hazardous.
In my views, we do learn from people who have contradictory views to ours in a positive manner by discussing each one’s plot one by one. But on the other hand, continuous fighting over each other’s plot can impede learning. One should be positive towards other’s choices and interpretations as well. Only then as a perspective of future, one can learn more and can solve to the issues surrounding with open eyes besides keeping eyes closed to the contradictory views.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 75, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a positive manner" with adverb for "positive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...le who have contradictory views to ours in a positive manner by discussing each one’s plot one by on...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, hence, if, look, so, then, therefore, well, as for, as to, for example, such as, as well as, in my opinion, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => 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: 2891.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 545.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30458715596 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00499485994 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502752293578 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 883.8 704.065955056 126% => 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: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.0984276396 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.3666666667 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1666666667 23.4991977007 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.56666666667 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => 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: 0.230825491861 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0605613481949 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651256056302 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13943157351 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0640940395771 0.0667264976115 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 100.480337079 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => 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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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.