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.
Task time: 30 minutes
Human emotions oftentimes influence our decision making. Whether we are contemplating splurging on the next groundbreaking piece of technology or choosing where to apply for college, we oftentimes rationalize our choices based on underlying murcurial assumptions. However, basing a decision solely on emotions and justifying those rash decisions later on with biased logic may be quite hurtful. Decisions, especially those of life-changing magnitude, should not be based on vacillating human desires due to the ability of these emotions to cloud true judgement, to make one vulnerability to be influenced by others, and to change in nature overtime.
Plato, eminent ancient Greek philosopher, describes the "Philosopher King" as being a wise, valiant person who transcends human will in order to be able to make sound choices that govern an entire community. Specifically, he emphasizes the ability of the philosopher king to exhibit clear judgement by not allowing his emotions to guide his decisions. If we are to allow our emotions to cloud this judgement, according to Plato, we ourselves will rule the nation of oneself astray as a poor decision maker. Therefore, al
In addition to emotions easily clouding judgement, they also allow us to become susceptible to the influence of others. Macbeth, famous character portrayed in one of Shakespeare's plays, quickly becomes influenced by his wife, Lady Macbeth, to murder the current king in order to take the throne. Later on in the story, Macbeth continually rationalizes his decision until it drives to be a mad man haunted by ghosts. High emotions may allow our minds to be easily persuaded to do make poor decisions based off of others.
Not only do decisions based on emotion make us vulnerable to the influence of others, but also make us vulnerable to our changing selves. Unlike inexorable mores and ethics, human emotion is known to change overtime. After driving a decision based of of one's own will, one may later find out that either the decision or the consequences of the decision are not what was expected. In history, this rashness may have been of great benefit in certain cases, such as that of Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg, who made the high stakes decision to drop out of Harvard to pursue the social media platform. However, successful outcomes like that of Zuckerberg are rare, and one may forget to mention the series of criminal charges Zuckerberg now faces due to the famous platform he created.
In conclusion, decision making not founded on true morals and guiding principles has the potential to be extremely harmful, especially for those who rationalize their decisions with subjective logic later on. Allowing oneself to be amenable to the changing winds of feelings allows one to become a victim to his decisions. Justifying those decisions later on with rational logic further defines a person as a poor decision maker.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: of
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...due to the famous platform he created. In conclusion, decision making not found...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2460.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22292993631 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94037802148 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511677282378 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 796.5 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.1049650379 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.473684211 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7894736842 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15789473684 5.21951772744 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256691395893 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.097205691295 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0965399496092 0.0758088955206 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163933386035 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0742731418049 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.49 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.