People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

Good decision making is a cognitive process of evaluating all the aspects which encompass logical as well as emotional factors. I do not completely agree with the statement of broadly categorizing the people who made emotional decisions and later justifying them with logic as poor decision makers. I believe the truth lies somewhere in middle. An assessment of the decision-making process of this category people may reveal the flip side of the coin.

We do not have to go too far to find examples where people have made emotional decisions and often justified them with logic. One cannot deny that the sacrifices our parents made had a greater of an emotional quotient but often justified those decisions with logic. I have seen my mother rejecting numerous wonderful work opportunities which could have been brilliant career move so that family does not get disturbed. Those were emotional decisions and later often explained with logic like better work-life balance but does that makes them poor decision maker? I believe no, not really.

Negative impacts of making a completely emotional decision with no logical explanation cannot be gainsaid. Definitely, there is no denial that there are certain impulsive decisions like wastefully spending money or indulging in wrong lifestyle choices because of emotional imbalances which are definitely not appreciated. This kind of decisions has an undesirable impact on life. However, an important point to consider in regard to such decisions is for this kind of arbitrary decisions then there is no logical reasoning or explanation. Hence, cannot support the statement under the discussion.

To a certain extent, it is seen that people who made emotional decisions and later use logic to explain themselves because of social bondage (be it be love or fear). Several factors like what if people shall think of my decision or I owe an explanation? What if they do not understand me and go against my decision? A person who feels a need to justify his emotional decision may use logic for outsiders and the world but the author fails to acknowledge that generalizing them as poor decision maker would not be so accurate. If a person is sure of his decision, firstly, I do not see a need to be justified. Secondly, often, it is not matter of right or wrong it is more of what works best for that person and is very subjective from person to person and importantly, justifying yourself cannot be a considered as an indication of poor decision making.

In cohesion to above statements, I would further like to add that in the process of decision making, a person who does not consider feeling and completely depends on calculations or logic can equally make poor choices if he fails to include happiness and contentment in his logical decision. A political policy depending just on logic will not earn the support of people until it takes cares of emotions and feeling of public.

To conclude, decision-making is an art of striking the right balance between brain and heart. One who listens to internal voice and finds logical reasoning to strengthen his/her decision have higher odds against failing. Hence, for me to fully endorse author's argument, it needs to be a shifted towards wider acceptance and flexibility to acknowledge different human behavior, thought processes and situations.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, then, well, kind of, as well as, in regard to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 11.1786427146 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 28.8173652695 160% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2802.0 2260.96107784 124% => OK
No of words: 554.0 441.139720559 126% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05776173285 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85151570047 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.807632761 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 204.123752495 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481949458484 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 904.5 705.55239521 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.5956476498 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.08 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.16 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.84 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.540587811101 0.218282227539 248% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.165995904004 0.0743258471296 223% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.13024204428 0.0701772020484 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.311610409447 0.128457276422 243% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108802960175 0.0628817314937 173% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 98.500998004 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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