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.

People make decisions either based on emotion or logic. Decisions that are made based on emotions are usually spontaneous and therefore do not allow an individual to weigh in all the possible outcomes of the act. On the other hand, logic based decisions are considered more mature and trusted because they tend to be more didactic and encompass possible outcomes of any decision made. However, to say that people who make emotion based decision and then try to justify those decisions with logic are poor decision makers would be an over simplification.

No one can gainsay the fact that any action that is taken after considering all the possibilities of its impact would be a more universally accepted. The mere fact that the possibility of any unwanted outcome is already considered through a logical thought process, making it less prone to surprises. And people who follow this approach are deemed better than those who dont abide by this method of making decisions. However, there may be case when the individual would not have time to incorporate all the elements to make a logical decision and in such scenario they would fall short of taking any decision. Consider an example of a road accident i which a truck may blow up any minute and there is a driver stuck inside. A person who thinks logically may start to calculate whether the truck may or may not blow up and would it be best for him to save his life rather than the driver. IN such scenarios a Illogical decision maker may fail. In real life scenario there would be instances where making a logic based decision may not be plausible.

The other kind of decision makers are those who go with emotional impulse and later try to justify their actions. Though it can be said that their decisions might not be correct because they do not take in practicality of situation before making up their mind, it would be incorrect to say that they always make poor decisions. Our human nature supports this by providing us with ability to fight or flight in extreme situations. In case of the last example an emotional person may just dash towards a burning tuck and pull out the driver, saving a life. If humanity always made calculative decisions then lot of things that we have today would not be possible. However, we cannot discount that emotional decisions have lead to bad consequences in the past. Nations went to war with each other for decisions made on whims of the rulers, leading to loss of millions of lives.

To sum, it may seem that decisions made without calculating reward and risk are considered as poor but it may not be the case every time. There are instances where an emotional decision is the best way forward to solve a problem. Therefore I would not agree completely with the argument that people who make decisions based on emotions and later justify them with logic are poor decision makers.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...and pull out the driver, saving a life. If humanity always made calculative decisi...
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Suggestion: Therefore,
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'kind of', 'on the other hand']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.2265917603 0.240241500013 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.192883895131 0.157235817809 123% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0674157303371 0.0880659088768 77% => OK
Adverbs: 0.063670411985 0.0497285424764 128% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0411985018727 0.0444667217837 93% => OK
Prepositions: 0.106741573034 0.12292977631 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0580524344569 0.0406280797675 143% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.51549459395 2.79330140395 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0318352059925 0.030933414821 103% => OK
Particles: 0.00749063670412 0.0016655270985 450% => OK
Determiners: 0.0917602996255 0.0997080785238 92% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0430711610487 0.0249443105267 173% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0243445692884 0.0148568991511 164% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2882.0 2732.02544248 105% => OK
No of words: 502.0 452.878318584 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74103585657 6.0361032391 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7334296765 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.310756972112 0.366273622748 85% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.237051792829 0.280924506359 84% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.169322709163 0.200843997647 84% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.101593625498 0.132149295362 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51549459395 2.79330140395 90% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 219.290929204 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464143426295 0.48968727796 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 53.4306036559 55.4138127331 96% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 22.8181818182 23.380412469 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.8459067031 59.4972553346 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.0 141.124799967 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8181818182 23.380412469 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.409090909091 0.674092028746 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 46.5233611011 51.4728631049 90% => OK
Elegance: 1.31446540881 1.64882698954 80% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.400070728178 0.391690518653 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.101577785549 0.123202303941 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0742606561267 0.077325440228 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.468121306635 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.13115073562 0.149214159877 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.15872389568 0.161403998019 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0970872688058 0.0892212321368 109% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.390774570776 0.385218514788 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0341518058861 0.0692045440612 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.321459342393 0.275328986314 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0765189228912 0.0653680567796 117% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.4325221239 77% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 3.66592920354 273% => OK
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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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