"But it is clear that the main reason to point out the trend is that its effects are controversial."
This is explicitly what the essay is NOT the main point. The main point is that the trend is real, and unprecedented, whether good or bad.
If the grader is grading what Arnold thinks the main point should be, rather than what the essay claims the main point is, the grader is less good.
Since I'm totally in agreement with Moses that the trend is real, I don't need to be convinced. There's an implication that it's more bad than good, but Caplan might well claim it's far more good than bad.
Contrast with a climate change article that argues about the trend. That debate has both good-bad issues, and more importantly what is the real trend. We can measure the CO2 increase, what about the temps? What about the ice caps? ... why were there multiple Ice Ages in the past, which then were followed by Global Warming?
It's perfectly valid to have an essay about a trend, without discussing the goodness-badness of it.
I think the Kling-opEd grader is great idea, and is already in alpha testing. I'm trying to help it get ready for more serious beta-testing. Tho Arnold might want to try to get Elon Musk interested. He claims to be looking at a steelman button.
Moses is more correct:
"But it is clear that the main reason to point out the trend is that its effects are controversial."
This is explicitly what the essay is NOT the main point. The main point is that the trend is real, and unprecedented, whether good or bad.
If the grader is grading what Arnold thinks the main point should be, rather than what the essay claims the main point is, the grader is less good.
Since I'm totally in agreement with Moses that the trend is real, I don't need to be convinced. There's an implication that it's more bad than good, but Caplan might well claim it's far more good than bad.
Contrast with a climate change article that argues about the trend. That debate has both good-bad issues, and more importantly what is the real trend. We can measure the CO2 increase, what about the temps? What about the ice caps? ... why were there multiple Ice Ages in the past, which then were followed by Global Warming?
It's perfectly valid to have an essay about a trend, without discussing the goodness-badness of it.
I think the Kling-opEd grader is great idea, and is already in alpha testing. I'm trying to help it get ready for more serious beta-testing. Tho Arnold might want to try to get Elon Musk interested. He claims to be looking at a steelman button.
https://twitter.com/richardprice100/status/1736098283741933823 or
https://twitter.com/scossar/status/1625255293218324480 (I saw an Elon reposted last week or so).
Please check out Bill Ackman's tweet essay on HES (Higher Ed Sys), wonder what Kling-opEd would say:
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1743792224020619450