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

The idea of what makes a decision good versus bad is a complex and interesting concept. Arguably, the decision making process and outcomes can be completely subjective in nature. Nevertheless, the author suggests that people who make emotional decisions and later back up those decisions with logic are ultimately poor decision makers. This statement is extreme and cannot be supported. The best decision makers regularly utilize both emotional and logical reasoning.

The argument underscores the contrast of emotional decision making with logical decision making. Is one truly superior to the other? Context and frequency is surely relevant. However, general decision making is most effective when both logic and emotion is both taken into consideration. For instance, when individuals choose a career, the most successful decisions are based of what the individual enjoys and what is economically and fiscally responsible. Finding the right balance between the two is critical.

Building on this concept, decisions based more or solely on emotion or logic are not necessarily poor decisions, as the author intimates. The idea of an arranged marriage is often foreign to American citizens. The concept essentially strips emotion from the life-long courtship. Individuals come together strictly for financial or social advantages. In many situations, couples establish a happy, lasting relationship. In contrast, there are many who marry based purely on emotion yielding the same result.

In concession, sometimes making decisions and later rationalizing can result in poorly. Deviations from the norm will always exist and examples will almost always depend on context. Take for example criminals who are convicted of aggravated assault. Objectively poor and violent decisions are made in the heat of the moment based of emotions like anger, lust, and greed. One may attempt to justify or rationalize their decision with logic by saying their actions were the result of self-defense. Or perhaps by claiming the perpetrator is mentally ill. There is an attempt to use both emotion backed by logic in these instances. Nevertheless, the outcome is still negative.

Conclusively, the idea of what makes a bad decision is difficult to define. One would be hard-pressed to claim that emotional decision making compared logical decision making is superior, or vice versa. It can be argued that habitually using both tactics together would yield the most beneficial, well rounded of outcomes.

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Average: 5.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...on emotion yielding the same result. In concession, sometimes making decisions ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, well, for example, for instance, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 33.0505617978 30% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2121.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 382.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.55235602094 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9040051779 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55497382199 0.4932671777 113% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 23.0359550562 56% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.6569389698 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 75.75 118.986275619 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.6428571429 23.4991977007 58% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 3.10714285714 5.21951772744 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => 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: 0.563773329883 0.243740707755 231% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.132174369253 0.0831039109588 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.157611080646 0.0758088955206 208% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.326280081811 0.150359130593 217% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120586640263 0.0667264976115 181% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 41.36 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.32 12.1639044944 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 11.8971910112 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 11.2143820225 64% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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