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.

This statement will hold true in most situations. Emotional decisions are made in the moment and usually come from a "gut feeling" or from the heart. What the heart wants is usually not what logic, or the brain, agrees with when reason comes into play. While gut feelings can help in situations like deciding whether a person feels comfortable or safe with another person, other decisions that have lasting effects can be detrimental if emotion is used prior to logic.

For example, many people have designated an individual to be in charge of their life if they are not in a state to make their own medical decisions. Those designated individuals will need to be able to process information logically and make timely decisions. While a loved one will always elicit some emotion, the brain must be able to overcome those emotions. If a person is in a coma and the doctor is asking the designated individual if they should pull the plug (the doctor has assessed there's no chance of survival) or keep the person in a coma, they should be able to assess the situation, weigh the pros and cons, and make a decision without days worth of delay. A person who makes decisions based on emotions would probably be undecided or try to keep the person in the coma, ignoring the exponentially increasing costs. Trying to justify that decision and the bills with logic wouldn't necessarily agree with the justification initially given by emotion because now they could be in debt and their loved one still has no chance of survival. In contrast, if the person initially made the decision with logic, there's a more likely chance all angles of the situation would have been considered - they loved one's life, chance of survival, and the expenses. The justification given later would corroborate their initial decision.

Another example is when a person wants to leave their current job, they should always have another job lined up before they give in their two weeks. A person who makes decisions based on emotion may give in their 2 weeks in the spur of the moment if they're feeling unfairly treated, overwhelmed, or angry. Now, they are unemployed and don't have any paychecks coming in. Justifying this decision later with logic could prove to be impossible since those unpleasant emotions could have been dealt with in another way, especially if they are not in the best financial situation. Someone who is able to make the initial decision logically would have found a healthier outlet to express those emotions and worked in the same company till they had another job lined up. Logically thinking about the situation without making an emotional decision resulted in the latter person making a great decision of not quitting immediately.

While some moments require an emotional or "gut feeling" decision to be made, most decisions encountered throughout a person's life will require the situation and the consequences of said decision to be assessed to make it a good decision. People who use logic initially rather than later to try to justify the decision are better decision makers in the long term.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 80, Rule ID: IN_THE_MOMENT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'at the moment' (=currently)?
Suggestion: at the moment
...ituations. Emotional decisions are made in the moment and usually come from a 'gut feeli...
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Suggestion: an
...ade in the moment and usually come from a 'gut feeling' or from the hea...
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...d pull the plug the doctor has assessed theres no chance of survival or keep the perso...
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Suggestion: wouldn't
... that decision and the bills with logic wouldnt necessarily agree with the justificatio...
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...initially made the decision with logic, theres a more likely chance all angles of the ...
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Line 3, column 1211, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...would have been considered - they loved ones life, chance of survival, and the expen...
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Suggestion: don't
... or angry. Now, they are unemployed and dont have any paychecks coming in. Justifyin...
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Line 7, column 129, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
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...most decisions encountered throughout a persons life will require the situation and the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so, still, while, for example, in contrast

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2594.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 524.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95038167939 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62278590352 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.469465648855 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 835.2 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.6484918618 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.7 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.55 5.21951772744 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272349107879 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0990938265533 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0691543711728 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194571685454 0.150359130593 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319093117399 0.0667264976115 48% => 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: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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