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.

"I can't quite put my finger on it." Those are words of someone trusting their intuition, a vague feeling that may be difficult to describe in words. It is fallacious to say that those who make decisions with emotion are poor decision makers. This does not consider all aspects of the human sensory system, nor the seemingly "unnatural" events that might occur in a high-stress situation, nor inveterate expertise. There are nuances of the human psyche which might position a person to be an even better decision maker than another who make decisions on logic alone.

There is a point in which someone's level of knowledge is so deeply apprehended that they are able to make decisions on instinct. In Malcom Gladwell's book called Blink, he articulates the ten-thousand hour rule. This is a general level of experience required to craft what some could call a "genius" in their field. For example, fire-fighters who can make a snap judgement in an unstable building, about whether a floor will collapse, are basing their action not on scientifically tested observations, but a sense that occurs from having been in many other buildings consumed in flames. Their decision may appear to be based on adrenaline, but is actually gained from many hours of experience.

In another example of actions beyond explanation is when a person taps into the primordial fight or flight instinct. Such individuals may gain inexplicable abilities, such as lifting a collapsed vehicle off the victim of a car-crash. In other circumstances, human strength could never be mustered to lift such an object. In risky encounters with strangers or being under attack, some may gain a a life-saving biological response, although logically the choice was based only on fear.

In psychology, it is believed there are several methods of input for which a human can choose to respond: senses, intuition, feeling, and logic. While one can weight the pros ad cons of a choice ad nausem, some who listen to the most quiet voice inside themselves - their intuition, can reach a choice that is far more appropriate than from any other method. For example, those who choose a spouse after knowing them for only a few days, and have a successful multi-decade marriage. However, some individuals may act out of passion, and end up with a divorce a month later.

Each human perhaps has a stronger connection to various methods of input, and must weight those methods, based on a track record of experience. A blanket statement about the aptitude of all choices not based on logic is a dangerous stereotype. Ingrained expertise, primordial response, and intuition are strong alternatives to logic which can lead to successful outcomes.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
'I cant quite put my finger on it.' Those...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...;I cant quite put my finger on it.' Those are words of someone trusting thei...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: a
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, however, if, may, so, well, while, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2289.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 447.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12080536913 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00254910701 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574944071588 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 716.4 704.065955056 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2338368923 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.45 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.35 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.226909133273 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0712043090788 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0941372203477 0.0758088955206 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118010717134 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.065937228512 0.0667264976115 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => 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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