Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Decision making is a very crucial process in today’s life. In every sphere of our life we need to make certain decision to ensure happiness and satisfaction. Decision making is a complex and a tedious process and also, involves a significant amount of risk. The author here states that knowing about past isn’t at all beneficial to make important decisions in today’s world. However in my view, I partly agree with the author.
For a better decision making we need to consider various factors which directly or indirectly affect the process to the present day. Consider the case of a situation where an individual is to decide to buy a car or commute to work using public transport. Seeing the present day situation of traffic congestion and vehicular pollution, the individual will be compelled to rely on public transport for commuting to work. Consider another example in relation to this situation where the government of Singapore has banned the sale of automobiles in response to the land scarcity in the island which has left no room for the expansion of its roads. Hence, considering the present day factors is essential for making an effective decision.
Also, in addition to rely on past events or long established facts, we need to realize that with the course of time certain established facts, traditions, customs or beliefs may tend to change. Consider the example of an environmentalist who is predicting the weather patterns of a certain region for a particular period of time. Certain other facts other than past climatological data need to be considered like the effects of global warming, the turning of the tides, ozone layer depletion etc. in order to predict the weather patterns in the near future. Hence, we need to keep in mind that certain factors or situations tend to change with time and we need to take them in account for a better decision making.
However, considering the past cannot be completely neglected in order to make a proper and effective decision. Past always lays the basis or the foundation for decision making in the present times. Consider the example of a beverage company which is to diversify its products in order to expand its market and boost the sales volume of its product. For making such a decision the analysts of the company have to take into account certain past evidences like sales of its current products in the previous years, market trends in the past, growth rates of their product sales over the past years, customer satisfaction with the current products etc. in order to verify that diversification to be successful and make a sound decision to diversify its products and further, expand its market. Hence, for making such crucial decision we initially need to rely on the past facts and evidences which can make them a basis for the present day decision making.
In sum, we need to take into account the present day scenario along with the past events, evidences, statistics, facts and data in a balanced manner in order make a proper and sound decision. Missing any of those will hinder the process of an effective decision making.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, may, so, in addition, in fact, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2606.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95437262357 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71478363171 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429657794677 0.4932671777 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 822.6 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.5867853143 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.304347826 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8695652174 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.91304347826 5.21951772744 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243181934087 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080490115001 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0861259289497 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140378681236 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.109101013505 0.0667264976115 164% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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