Knowledge about past can help us make an evidence based assumption on the outcome of our decision. The same decision could have been made earlier by many people over the centuries and this gives us a solid ground to prognosticate the outcome. So I believe that knowing the past will never hurt the decision making process.
On a personal level, if we know that we have made a mistake earlier such as choosing the wrong partner, choosing to procrastinate on important occasions, not being faithful to partners etc., we can avoid making such a mistake with the knowledge of the past. In the absence of such knowledge, say through a memory loss, we can end up making the same mistakes over and over.
Secondly, other's mistakes are an important place to ground our decisions on as we need not make the same mistakes again. This is how science has evolved through the centuries. A scientist after repeated failures makes a discovery and documents the discovery process and the experiments carried out in support of the discovery. Based on this, a next generation scientist will learn what works and what doesn't and proceeds from there. This will help us not to re-discover the wheel again, so to say. At the personal level as well, it is easy to see how learning from other's mistakes can help us avoid getting into the same trouble as they do. For example, if we've seen a marriage broken apart due to an alcoholic father, we would realize that alcoholism is bad without having to go through the arduous experience.
One loop hole in following the past blindly is that we can end up being dogmatic and many principles codified in past can become outdated now. For example, some religious principles which are against gay marriage, which allow us to keep slaves are anachronic. So we should not to be too rigid about absolutely following the past as the future will become monotonous and dry.
In conclusion, history tends to repeat itself, so it is always better we are equipped with knowledge from past and ground our decisions on them. But we should not be copying our decisions verbatim but make a reasonable, well-informed choice which is relevant to the current situation. It is Baye's Theorem all over again where we update our priors given evidence and reach a posterior that is based on both evidence and priors.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, second, secondly, so, well, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1934.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 401.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82294264339 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5883677077 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526184538653 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 601.2 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.0010407569 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.444444444 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2777777778 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.138992700052 0.243740707755 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0493271101498 0.0831039109588 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0420072084803 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0806126928307 0.150359130593 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0347374807713 0.0667264976115 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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