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.

In one's day-to-day life, an individual constantly steers his or her life to different avenues with every decision he or she makes. While there is a certain role of chance in how our lives turn out, by and large, it is our decisions and the choices that we make that land us in favorable or unfavorable circumstances. Decision-making is a skill that is part and parcel of every human activity and every field of work - be it running the government, running a business, running an army or even looking after the household. It is a skill that is only honed by years and years of experience and is the most important weapon that a successful leader must be equipped with.

Given the significance of how one correct decision can result in vastly different and better outcomes than a bad decision that leads to poor conditions, it is imperative to make decisions objectively to avoid errors. When one's vision is clouded by emotion, one often develops a tunnel vision and ends us making all the wrong decisions. For instance, a person that has lived in poverty for a major part of his life might spend every last penny when he suddenly receives the slightest increase in his income. Such a person is prone to making decisions out of a mindset of desperation and thus fails to see the bigger picture. On the other hand, taking a decision based on logic, allows one to view a situation from all aspects and such decisions shall more likely ensure longer-lasting solutions to problems.

However, some people often make decisions based on emotion and then attempt to defend it on the basis of logic. Consider a student who gives into procrastination and laziness and does not study for a test. As a result, the student fails in class. Now such a student might try to defend her decision to not study by citing the extremely high percentage of failures in her class and claiming that the odds were not in her favor anyway. Such a justification is incorrect since ex ante the student had no basis to determine this probability of failure and made her decision purely on an emotional impulse. In fact she could have studied a lot harder and ended up in the minority of students who performed well in the class.

On the other hand, some might argue that being overly dry and methodical in your decisions hampers one's ability to empathize and connect with the emotions of others. For instance, a policy-maker needs to empathize with the sufferings of the poor in drafting policies. However, I say that while being aware of all psychological and emotional aspects associated with a problem is important, finally any decision must be made with sound logic and sensibility otherwise decisions shall result in even worse conditions. For instance, such a policy-maker cannot simply start handing out money to the poor to alleviate their problems as that will result in a horde of other challenges.

Hence I agree with the notion that people who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

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Average: 7.5 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
anyway, finally, hence, however, if, look, so, then, thus, well, while, for instance, in fact, as a result, by and large, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2519.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 524.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8072519084 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74075051376 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509541984733 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 819.0 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8885913629 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.95 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.95 5.21951772744 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 5.13820224719 214% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.497029683133 0.243740707755 204% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148115161797 0.0831039109588 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.191705463554 0.0758088955206 253% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.347513607284 0.150359130593 231% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.267330942284 0.0667264976115 401% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 100.480337079 118% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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