People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the pos

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People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position

Decisions based on emotion are likely to be wrong and are generally considered bad decisions. A bad decision for the purpose of this essay would be defined as one that does not achieve an objective and leaves the individuals affected by it in an undesirable state due to the decision.

Most decisions have implications that are not considered in an emotional state. Decisions made based on logic use verifiable data and are made after considering all sides of an argument. Logic dictates the use of minimum assumptions and requires reliance on authentic data to arrive at a decision free of personal bias. Because of the process of logical thought, decision makers are required to take a holistic approach and view the problem from multiple angles. This ensures adequate consideration being given to all factors that affect the outcome of the decision. Decisions made based on emotion are plagued by personal biases which overwhelm the decision maker's mind to such an extent that they cloud rational thought. This leads to a unilateral thought process which fails to consider factors not apparent immediately. For example, a decision to purchase a new vehicle purely based on the need one feels to own it is a poor one for it does not consider multiple factors one ought to before following through with a purchase of such magnitude. Not having considered one's financial ability and the need for a vehicle apart from the practical difficulties, one is at risk of being stuck with a vehicle which causes more harm than good. Such decisions are impulsive in nature and disregard the long-term implications leaving one with more problems than one started with.

The human mind also tends to rationalize its actions by twisting facts to arrive at a conclusion. Even if one were to attempt to justify a decision based on emotion with logic, one would perceive facts differently and align them to one's point of view to justify the poor decision. For example, a teacher can reprimand a student known for poor behavior when the student is not at fault. The decision is based on the teacher's emotions toward the student and not rooted in observation and evidence. One might defend the decision by quoting previous incidents, but would be at fault because of arriving at a decision without considering all factors of the situation. Any justification of such a decision would be flawed due to the absence of credible evidence proving the need for reprehension.

There are certain situations where logic doesn't serve to help one arrive at the best decision. Most of these are matters of the heart and are inherently emotional decisions. Applying the rules of logic does not help because the evidence used to guide the logical thought process can be misconstrued and cannot be verified by any means. Evidence is a key factor in logical thought, which when questionable undermines the entire process of logic based decision making. Such decisions lend themselves to emotion and are more likely to be right decisions when guided by emotion rather than logic.
For the reasons mentioned above, it can be conclusively said that people who make decisions based on emotion and attempt to validate them using logic are poor decision makers.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'apart from', 'for example']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.231173380035 0.240241500013 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.199649737303 0.157235817809 127% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0980735551664 0.0880659088768 111% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0350262697023 0.0497285424764 70% => OK
Pronouns: 0.015761821366 0.0444667217837 35% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129597197898 0.12292977631 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0700525394046 0.0406280797675 172% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.70987972577 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0402802101576 0.030933414821 130% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.106830122592 0.0997080785238 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0175131348511 0.0249443105267 70% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0210157618214 0.0148568991511 141% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3230.0 2732.02544248 118% => OK
No of words: 538.0 452.878318584 119% => OK
Chars per words: 6.00371747212 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81610080973 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.371747211896 0.366273622748 101% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.310408921933 0.280924506359 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.206319702602 0.200843997647 103% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.113382899628 0.132149295362 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70987972577 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 219.290929204 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447955390335 0.48968727796 91% => OK
Word variations: 52.3140040127 55.4138127331 94% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6194690265 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.4166666667 23.380412469 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.5632372071 59.4972553346 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.583333333 141.124799967 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4166666667 23.380412469 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.291666666667 0.674092028746 43% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 53.45755886 51.4728631049 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.72027972028 1.64882698954 104% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.430981867407 0.391690518653 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.132963370344 0.123202303941 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0664122507158 0.077325440228 86% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.496268928807 0.547984918172 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.152788833464 0.149214159877 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.172026220141 0.161403998019 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0653521109106 0.0892212321368 73% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.434779241903 0.385218514788 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0931811948565 0.0692045440612 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.31703232191 0.275328986314 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255995727231 0.0653680567796 39% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.4325221239 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.30420353982 283% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 7.22455752212 55% => OK
Negative topic words: 14.0 3.66592920354 382% => Less negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 22.0 13.5995575221 162% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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