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.

We, humans seldom make any decisions that aren't emotional. In every walk of life, we tend to make emotional decisions from choosing the colour of the outfit to starting a war. Some decisions turn out to be great, some not so good and some even detrimental to our existence. Being THE sentient species on this planet, we ought to apply our faculties more in decision making.

In context to the statement, I agree to it in theory, as it is speaking about a specific category of people who make emotional decisions and justify them after the fact. Let us take an example of stock trading. An automotive stock trader bets big on a car company stock that he/she heard about in the news and suddenly the market takes a dive with the particular going into negative profit territory. Here, the trader keeps on hanging to the stock hoping for a reversal against convention, and he starts giving all kinds of logic to himself/herself. The stock purchase wasn't a poor decision, as it was based on information and intuition from trading automotive stocks, however, hanging on to it amidst losses was.

If today, I am late to class and provide the logic that I was helping a disabled person reach his destination. Does that make me a poor decision maker? You could argue that it is, based on the class's perspective, but it was as a decision, I would happily take again.

In summary, I would say that emotional decisions bring out the best and worst in us. In the end, it depends on the decision's context, the beneficiaries, motivations and the actual result of the decision.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, in summary, speaking about

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1301.0 2235.4752809 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 276.0 442.535393258 62% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.71376811594 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.55969084622 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68982881593 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 215.323595506 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.594202898551 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 409.5 704.065955056 58% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.4533692853 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.9285714286 118.986275619 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42857142857 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.25211076872 0.243740707755 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835047275455 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0635856586175 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137454505471 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00616383376901 0.0667264976115 9% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.1392134831 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 100.480337079 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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