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

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

Human society consists of myriad of problems that differ from each other in their inherent nature. Not two problems are equally alike and there is no hard and fast rules of how to solve each one of them. While I do concede that People making decisions based on their rational thinking are generally the better decision makers, there are some cases that requires emotions to be prevalent before thinking to have any effect at all.

The idea that thinking comes before doing is generally deemed as a great saying by people of all ages. In fact, it is so true that we see it in almost every day of our life. Any decision, based on just emotional thinking tends to have some consequences. These consequences vary from inconsequential to extremely deleterious in some cases. Take the instance of joining a graduate school for example. If we take the decision hastily based on the exuberance of receiving the first letter of admission, we're doing a mistake. Again, any person thinking that he will choose college X because it is closer to his house or that all of his friends are going there is probably making a mistake thinking based on his emotions because college Y, although far, might provide him with better tutors, teaching materials and therefore, better chance to further his career. All of these decisions, when made under the heat of the moment, can have serious detrimental effects on the afterlife of any student. Thus every opportunity, no matter how attractive needs to be weighed against its pros and cons and be passed through a series of rational thinking processes before making a definitive conclusion, thus minimizing the potential dangers of it.

This idea of always making decision based on logic, however, doesn't prove fruitful in every sphere of our life. In the battlefield, for example, when two people are standing in front of each other in a life or death situation, a moment's hesitation could be the death of anyone. If one were to make a decision here based on his logical thinking, it would take far more time and he could possibly lose his life. Here, thinking based on his emotions and thus triggering his desire for survival could be the key to hasten his reflexes and overcome his opponent. The same is true for the field of any competition. Most sports permit so little time for its contenders that more often than not, there is very little time to take a logical decision. Higher dependence on logical thinking, therefore, could severely undermine the competitors chance to win. One needs to make the best use of his experience and strong but necessary emotional spurts to keep him above others and prevail in the long run.

Sometimes, over thinking can cause us to lose an opportunity which we could have appropriated otherwise. Better chances are given to people who raise their hands first when asked a question when compared to one who is still weighing the pros and cons in his mind. An outfielder who sees a ball floating to him might think that at the pace that he can run, he will never catch the ball. On the other hand, a player who knows that he can't catch the ball normally but goes for the ball anyway, might just be able to catch the ball because of the emotional strength that is provided to him by the roaring spectators and his own fervent desire to win. Over thinking, therefore needs to be culled and only used in cases where you have ample time to determine the outcome through precise deliberation of the pros and cons.

In conclusion, although logical thinking usually wields better and safer results, there are cases in which logical thinking falls short and emotional thinking prevails. Judgement of the situation and the type of thinking needed is therefore crucial so that the proper decision can be made and the dangers can be minimized.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, but, first, however, if, so, still, therefore, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, in some cases, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 57.0 33.0505617978 172% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3153.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 659.0 442.535393258 149% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.78452200303 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.06665523852 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51946993923 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 312.0 215.323595506 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47344461305 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 1009.8 704.065955056 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.1812555766 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.777777778 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4074074074 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07407407407 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.203359189217 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0545655102595 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713761950455 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127041402247 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0501258868387 0.0667264976115 75% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 140.0 100.480337079 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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