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.

I partially agree with the statement and will argue that the statement might be unsuitable in certain scenarios which will be discussed further afterwards.

First, emotion refers to people's reactions to certain situations. However, people tend to have different reactions even to the same situation since people's behaviors are affected by numerous factors, such as their backgrounds, knowledge level and family education etc. Therefore, using emotion to make decision might result in the problem of being inaccurate. Because our emotions are normally framed by our past experiences, which may not always be the most suitable standard to explain the current condition, not just by the actual fact that is happening at the moment. Thus, poor decision is possible due to the tendency that emotion may neglect the present logic.

Second, like what is mentioned above, emotions vary to different people. Hence, the decision based on emotions might lead to narrow-minded result. For example, I feel upset when seeing people drinking, so I support non-drinking gathering, while other people might view drinking as an essential way to relax. Then the conflict might happen if I insist to forbid drinking in the gathering, and the conflict can be avoided if I do think twice before making a decision, instead of only following my feeling of being upset.

Third, emotion normally doesn't last long, and that is why it is common that the logic afterwards is essential. Because people still need a way to justify their decisions or behaviors after the emotion is gone. For instance, I might over eat for the reason that i feel bad to fail my test. But it may turn out I feel regret of over-eating. However, I need to justify my behavior, so I would think that this is rational to compensate myself, so over-eating is not a problem at all, though it is actually not a good behavior. From the case, it is common to notice how people tend to justify their behaviors, though there is not positive evidence to support.

However, I will also argue that in some scenarios it is actually more effective to make decisions based on emotions, such as in an emergency. Because it is argued that emotion might be a faster reactions that are formed by all the past rational calculations, which is also called intuition. Therefore, when the time is limited and the decision needs to be made quickly, using emotion as a guide might be a good way.

To sum up, my points are that most of the time, only using emotion to guide decisions might not be good. But when the emergency happens, emotion might serve a better way to reach a positive results.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, still, then, therefore, third, thus, while, for example, for instance, i feel, such as, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2189.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 446.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90807174888 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66689592025 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504484304933 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 680.4 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0332934423 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.238095238 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2380952381 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 5.21951772744 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => 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: 0.272535857045 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0923525150123 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0845784202174 0.0758088955206 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138388589527 0.150359130593 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0626163836612 0.0667264976115 94% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.1392134831 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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