People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

Essay topics:

People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

The statement deems those who justify their emotional decisions, after they have been made, poor decision makers. I tend to disagree with this statement for two major reasons as explained in the sequel.

First, the statement makes a broad assumption that good decisions are always preceded by logic. We all know that sometimes people make decisions based on intuition, emotions, experience, and/or a combination of these and not necessarily on the basis of a firm logical framework. For example, when one feels like a vehicle is fast approaching, he/she automatically pull herself/himself out of the way in order to remain safe. This reflection is not because the individual has performed gone through some calculated decision making in her/his mind before committing the act. Rather, it is a product of his/her intuition built from various sources.

Even if we assume that decisions are always preceded by some sort of a rationale, the statement tends to dehumanize people by detaching emotions from their "logical" decisions. I believe individuals, even when making decisions based on a logical thought process, subconciously may draw on their emotions and intuitions in making a final decision. That is, the decision making process is rather a holistic approach than a discrete one. For example, when a student decides to select a university for his studies, he may not base his decision solely on cost, curriculum, size of the faculty, and other quantifiable factors. Rather, he may consider "emotional" aspects such as location of the university, livelihood of the city, distance from hometown, and many other considerations. Hence, to think that emotional decision making is poor decision making is a mere fallacy, let alone rationalizing the decision after the fact.

In conclusion, we provided two primary reasons for disagreeing with the statement presented here. Although, the opposing worldview is found to be somewhat valid on the account that generally sound-minded people are expected to have rationalized their decisions before committing to one, it is deemed immaterial to cause a shift in our position. This expectation is believed to be based on a misunderstanding of the thought process of human beings.

Votes
Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 365, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'pulls'.
Suggestion: pulls
... fast approaching, he/she automatically pull herself/himself out of the way in order...
^^^^
Line 5, column 62, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'a' after a classification term. Use simply 'sort of'.
Suggestion: sort of
...t decisions are always preceded by some sort of a rationale, the statement tends to dehum...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, may, so, for example, in conclusion, sort of, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 58.6224719101 80% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1901.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 351.0 442.535393258 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41595441595 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24096082656 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 215.323595506 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578347578348 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7787344848 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.8125 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9375 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4375 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.440377182236 0.243740707755 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139906408302 0.0831039109588 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122233727873 0.0758088955206 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.247804618026 0.150359130593 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0915060630531 0.0667264976115 137% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 100.480337079 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------

Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
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.