The debate between the merits of emotional vs logical decisions is, and will remain a perennial issue as long as humans are around to make them. Whilst in many cases pure logical thinking results in a better outcome, we cannot ignore the fact that humans are emotional beings and that, at some point, fulfilling our emotional needs is the logical and right choice.
It is hard to deny that there are many situations in which the cold, hard application of logic is the best option for decision making. You wouldn't want the president of the United States declaring war with a country based on a personal spat with it's leader, nor would you want leading scientists and engineers to take decisions on which drugs to develop or how strong to make your car based on anything but undeniable evidence. In these roles, where decisions have clearly quantifiable and grave consequences, emotional decision making is not the way forward.
However, not all decisions have such well defined outcomes. For instance how would you make a logical decision about your next holiday destination? Bar the obvious choice to go somewhere you can afford, is there any logical rational to spend a week skiing in the alps rather than snorkeling in the Caribbean? Clearly here most would agree that the decision should be made based on enjoyment, not logic.
There are also many decisions in which the difference between logic and emotion are not so clear cut. One such decision faced by millions of young people every year is the arduous choice of which college major to choose, the one they love or the one that guarantees a well paying job? If, as in this case, the measurable outcome of the decision is based on the decision maker's emotional response to the outcome, then surely it only makes sense to make an emotional decision. One student may believe they will be happier with the security of a well paid job whilst another may be willing to sacrifice this financial bedrock for the chance to make a living doing what they love. Even though this is an emotional decision, there is still a contrast between a long and short term emotional choice, the former of which is preferable.
Humans are emotional creatures and, to a certain extent, we define out success by our emotional state. Although pure logical thinking has it's place in making highly consequential or purely quantitative decisions, it is too far to suggest that emotional decision making has no place in our everyday lives.
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Suggestion: wouldn't
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'still', 'then', 'well', 'for instance', 'in many cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.223913043478 0.240241500013 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.145652173913 0.157235817809 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.115217391304 0.0880659088768 131% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0630434782609 0.0497285424764 127% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0434782608696 0.0444667217837 98% => OK
Prepositions: 0.104347826087 0.12292977631 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0326086956522 0.0406280797675 80% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.51630388333 2.79330140395 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0304347826087 0.030933414821 98% => OK
Particles: 0.00217391304348 0.0016655270985 131% => OK
Determiners: 0.108695652174 0.0997080785238 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0217391304348 0.0249443105267 87% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0217391304348 0.0148568991511 146% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2473.0 2732.02544248 91% => OK
No of words: 423.0 452.878318584 93% => OK
Chars per words: 5.8463356974 6.0361032391 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.58838876751 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.354609929078 0.366273622748 97% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.25768321513 0.280924506359 92% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.16548463357 0.200843997647 82% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.108747044917 0.132149295362 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51630388333 2.79330140395 90% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 219.290929204 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543735224586 0.48968727796 111% => OK
Word variations: 62.9968799734 55.4138127331 114% => OK
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6194690265 78% => OK
Sentence length: 26.4375 23.380412469 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.8239515685 59.4972553346 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 154.5625 141.124799967 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4375 23.380412469 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.6875 0.674092028746 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 52.205821513 51.4728631049 101% => OK
Elegance: 1.43103448276 1.64882698954 87% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192005561081 0.391690518653 49% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0942004113175 0.123202303941 76% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0544709406639 0.077325440228 70% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.551680054491 0.547984918172 101% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.152815013437 0.149214159877 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0859565663092 0.161403998019 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560870004053 0.0892212321368 63% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.283216445247 0.385218514788 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0742182852754 0.0692045440612 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127426438221 0.275328986314 46% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0430881765746 0.0653680567796 66% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88274336283 20% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.70907079646 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
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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