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

In many personality tests, whether it be for professional development or for entertainments, several questions are often posed in order to determine if a person either makes decisions through logic or through emotions. While these test can give a superficial understanding of which side a person can be catagorized, they do not discuss which leads to poor decision making. When considering different types of decision making paths it can be understood that people who make decisions based on emotions followed by logic are usually poor decision makers.

Examples of poor decisions driven by emotions over logical can be seen throughout history. The warnings of acting hastily due to emotions are riddled throughout tales of failures and downfalls. Even in recent history we can see this problem emerge, with the second Bush Administration. President George W. Bush, unlike father, had failed at both school and buisness, and constantly lived in the shadow of his father's successes. This toremented him during his two terms, causing him to decide to take on the challenge of Iraq that his father had never completed. This was a decision driven by his emotions and fueled by his advisors, and only after the US involvement in the area, did he search for logical reasons for engaging in conflict. The claim that they came up with that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction was completely false and as a result of emotion based decision, the US is still stuck in the Middle East and has fostered an era of further extreme terrorism. If the administration focused on logic and was not focused on trying to outdo the previous Bush Administration, the current global situation might have been avoided.

Although examples such as the Busch Administration's are spread throughout history, supporters of the opposing claim (that following emotions first does not lead to poor decision making) can highlight various aspects of our culture to support their side. For example there are commonly used phrases such as gut instinct or love at first sight, which usually indicate a correctly made decision that was driven by emotions. Although these are both commonly used positive phrases, careful consideration demonstrates that even these situations actually reflect poor decision making. Following a gut feeling can often be misguided, especially if the person is following a emotions are intuitions that rooted in irratic behavior or anxiety. The decision made at love at first sight is a completely superficial irresponsible decision that does not take into consideration compatablity and is comparable to the warning of judging a book by its cover.

In conclusion, making decisions based on emotion followed by logic leads to poor decision making. Whether it be through failures by entire branches of governments or by individuals assuming they know whats best for them, emotions alone lead down a negative path.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, if, second, so, still, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2455.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 470.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22340425532 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9197048351 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 215.323595506 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531914893617 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 769.5 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5564949331 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.210526316 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7368421053 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.3836238903 0.243740707755 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125449863036 0.0831039109588 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155828526728 0.0758088955206 206% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.2598117101 0.150359130593 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0877463887223 0.0667264976115 132% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 100.480337079 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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