The prompt concludes that people who provide justifications after their decisions (either good or bad) have been made are in general, poor decision makers. There are several reasons and scenarios that can be drawn from everyday lives of people to provide premises for this conclusion.
There are several instances where people get influenced by the image they would start portraying for themselves after taking a certain decision. People could do this for raising their standards in the society, even though the decision might be detrimental on a personal and financial basis. People's vision starts to become cloudy by not clearly analysing the impact of a decision or choice prior to making that decision and instead focussing on the instant gratification achieved from that decision. For example, lot of investments, such as buying x units of a given stock based on some website's recommendation or purchasing a house by taking out a huge loan may seem beneficial in the short term, but can give birth to serious financial issues later during life. This usually ties people to their current jobs and does not allow them to be flexible with career options and hobbies.
On a related note, an impulsive purchase is another situation that can explain the issue at hand. For example, an iPhone costs about 2 to 3 times the average income of an individual in India. This does not, however prevent people from splurging on it, thanks to the credit card offers made by banks. The average user, may very well use a phone that costs 20% of the iPhone as a daily driver instead. Since iPhone is considered voguish in the Indian society, people come up with flawed logic by citing one off features such as 3d touch, that was recently introduced in the latest version of the iPhone. However, 3d touch is not a valid, primary justification for splurging on a expensive phone.
On the other hand, one might argue that since people are able to justify decisions with logic, they may not be bad decision makers after all. What really separates bad decision makers from good ones is the ability to write down the reasons why one opts for choice a over choice b prior to making that choice. If one isn't able to do this, there is no guarantee that the person wouldn't repeat the same things while making a decision between choice c and choice d. Hence, it is imperative to come up with clear and cogent justifications prior to making them.
Thus, to conclude, it is necessary to justify before deciding on a choice to be termed as a good decision maker.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 588, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'websites'' or 'website's'?
Suggestion: websites'; website's
... x units of a given stock based on some websites recommendation or purchasing a house by...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 676, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... primary justification for splurging on a expensive phone. On the other hand, ...
^
Line 7, column 265, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...own the reasons why one opts for choice a over choice b prior to making that choi...
^
Line 7, column 317, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...e b prior to making that choice. If one isnt able to do this, there is no guarantee ...
^^^^
Line 7, column 377, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
..., there is no guarantee that the person wouldnt repeat the same things while making a d...
^^^^^^^
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'after all', 'for example', 'in general', 'such as', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.236897274633 0.240241500013 99% => OK
Verbs: 0.155136268344 0.157235817809 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0964360587002 0.0880659088768 110% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0482180293501 0.0497285424764 97% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0230607966457 0.0444667217837 52% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127882599581 0.12292977631 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0587002096436 0.0406280797675 144% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.52454290266 2.79330140395 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0356394129979 0.030933414821 115% => OK
Particles: 0.0083857442348 0.0016655270985 503% => OK
Determiners: 0.104821802935 0.0997080785238 105% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.020964360587 0.0249443105267 84% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0167714884696 0.0148568991511 113% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2540.0 2732.02544248 93% => OK
No of words: 439.0 452.878318584 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.78587699317 6.0361032391 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.58838876751 100% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.364464692483 0.366273622748 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.223234624146 0.280924506359 79% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.145785876993 0.200843997647 73% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0865603644647 0.132149295362 66% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52454290266 2.79330140395 90% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 219.290929204 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558086560364 0.48968727796 114% => OK
Word variations: 66.4706680506 55.4138127331 120% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6194690265 82% => OK
Sentence length: 25.8235294118 23.380412469 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5712293387 59.4972553346 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.411764706 141.124799967 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8235294118 23.380412469 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.882352941176 0.674092028746 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 48.1469918263 51.4728631049 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.87037037037 1.64882698954 113% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.184509981222 0.391690518653 47% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.115435166299 0.123202303941 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0802587242601 0.077325440228 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.552718892134 0.547984918172 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.167800331196 0.149214159877 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.076989209828 0.161403998019 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676762929721 0.0892212321368 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.308257368203 0.385218514788 80% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0210949020202 0.0692045440612 30% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122676693956 0.275328986314 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0526868076194 0.0653680567796 81% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.4325221239 105% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.30420353982 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.66592920354 27% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.