The statement that people who makes decisions based on emotions and later justify those decisions with logic are poor decision makers is a compelling one. I agree mostly with the statement but it is one that I cannot fully endorse without qualification due to it's 'all or nothing' approach in totally disregarding everyone who makes decision on the basis of emotion as poor decision makers.
Emotion usually gets the better of sound decision and clouds judgement, so it is usually unwise to based a decision solely on emotions. One example that lives vividly in the mind's of many is the decision of the Bush administration to invade Iraq after the 911 incident. Pressured by lobbyists and the frustration and anger of the general public to strike back at Osama, George Bush made the hasty decision to send troops to Iraq and started a war. It was a rash decision that costs the lives of many American soldiers and wasted billions of dollars in the ensuing years. The administration later came out to justify their decision of starting the war with reasonings such as the evidence that Osama's regime had weapons of mass destruction. The claim is widely disputed and critics claim that is used mainly to distract from the main point that it was a poor decision to invade Iraq.
However said, some decisions outcome are not so clear cut or have binary results, so at times the only good measure of making decision is based on emotion. For example, a parent might be completely outraged if they find out that their kids have started smoking. A parent might be reprimand their children and tell them off for their actions because of emotions. Some might argue that the logical thing to do is to stop giving the child allowances so that they will not have the money to purchase cigarettes. However, the parents decision to scold their children is done out of love of their children and hoping that they will learn from their mistakes.
In conclusion, we can see for most cases, people who makes decision based on emotion and justifying those decisions with logic later are poor decision makers. However, it is easy to criticise someone for making a hasty decision based on emotion that turned out to the wrong decision due to the power of hindsight. Therefore, the truth to the statement is limited.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 337, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...ts and the frustration and anger of the general public to strike back at Osama, George Bush ma...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
... was a poor decision to invade Iraq. However said, some decisions outcome are not so...
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Line 5, column 20, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'decisions'' or 'decision's'?
Suggestion: decisions'; decision's
...n to invade Iraq. However said, some decisions outcome are not so clear cut or have bi...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.253393665158 0.240241500013 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.176470588235 0.157235817809 112% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0588235294118 0.0880659088768 67% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0565610859729 0.0497285424764 114% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0452488687783 0.0444667217837 102% => OK
Prepositions: 0.119909502262 0.12292977631 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0475113122172 0.0406280797675 117% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.59868331265 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0384615384615 0.030933414821 124% => OK
Particles: 0.00904977375566 0.0016655270985 543% => OK
Determiners: 0.0927601809955 0.0997080785238 93% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0158371040724 0.0249443105267 63% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0135746606335 0.0148568991511 91% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2329.0 2732.02544248 85% => OK
No of words: 397.0 452.878318584 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.86649874055 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.337531486146 0.366273622748 92% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.261964735516 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.186397984887 0.200843997647 93% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0906801007557 0.132149295362 69% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59868331265 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 219.290929204 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498740554156 0.48968727796 102% => OK
Word variations: 54.4091445494 55.4138127331 98% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 24.8125 23.380412469 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8846987729 59.4972553346 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.5625 141.124799967 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8125 23.380412469 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5625 0.674092028746 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 51.0089735516 51.4728631049 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.51219512195 1.64882698954 92% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22140232919 0.391690518653 57% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.131798452603 0.123202303941 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0761829917354 0.077325440228 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.589506818319 0.547984918172 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.122195503518 0.149214159877 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118851500616 0.161403998019 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.1620830469 0.0892212321368 182% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.38621927868 0.385218514788 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0404042950043 0.0692045440612 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213654234378 0.275328986314 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.129793696885 0.0653680567796 199% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.4325221239 38% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 7.22455752212 42% => OK
Negative topic words: 10.0 3.66592920354 273% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.