What goes on in your brain when you make a decision? For some people, they calculate the risk and reward; others refer to the past and base their decision off that, and other don’t think at all. Knowledge of the past will not always be beneficial in making important decisions today.
When it comes down to everyday tasks, most people don’t think about it, they just do it. Its innate. However, people are ignorant when the consequences of these actions don’t affect them. For example, drunk driving has killed millions of people around the world; yet people still drink and drive. They know that drunk driving is dangerous and can lead to serious injuries and even death, yet they don’t flinch when it comes to driving yourself home after a long night of drinking. Only after having experienced it ourselves or with someone close to us, will we realize that we shouldn’t drink and drive.
Furthermore, we cannot base our decisions on the past because the world is ever changing. What may have worked 5 years ago will not work today. For example, investing in the stock market. Lets say its 2007 and you want to invest in the stock market. Ever since 2002, the market is starting to flourish again. So 2002 to 2007, NASDAQ and S&P 500 both double in value and lots of money is being made. Based on the past, you’re thinking since the market has been up for the past 5 years, it should still be up in the next 5 yours. So you invest your entire savings, hoping to retire in the near future, but the housing market crashes and stocks drop 50% in a matter of 3 days. You lose your home and all of your life savings. Decisions cannot be made based on past knowledge.
However, basing our decisions on the past is not always a bad thing. In some studies, we must use theories, proven from the past, in order to discover new ones. As a scientist, we must formulate our hypothesis in our experiments based on what we know will and won’t work. It would be a waste of time, money, and resources to recreate experiments that we already know will work, such as do protons and electrons attract, what is the boiling point of water, etc.
In conclusion, knowledge of the past wont necessarily help us in the decisions we make today if are ignorant or uneducated. We must take the past with a grain of salt and use our own judgment.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1945.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 423.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.59810874704 5.05705443957 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41764809832 2.79657885939 86% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541371158392 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.7986301156 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.0416666667 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.625 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41666666667 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25066438408 0.243740707755 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0740322811393 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706229042132 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158756375601 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0610121365207 0.0667264976115 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.1 14.1392134831 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 48.8420337079 146% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.1743820225 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.1 12.1639044944 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.35 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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