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 pos

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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.

One of the most cherished characteristics of humans is the ability to feel and show our emotions. In a world which is largely governed by human emotions, it is, however, a sign of poor decision making when people make decisions based on their emotions and then make it worse by trying to justify their decisions with logic.

We, as humans, tend to let our emotions overpower us in a lot of situations in life. We become so emotional and end up making a series of decisions that are governed by our emotions itself. Even though these decisions might seem like the best choices at that moment, we end up realizing later how foolishly we acted. What makes it worse is, in order to cover up for our poor decisions and results, we try to justify them by using abstract logic. This, more than often, is just an attempt to justify our actions and help us feel better. Any decision that we make, be it in our personal, social, or professional lives must always be made by making use of analytical thinking. One must consider the positive and negative outcomes of every decision and then take a sound decision that they know will give the best outcome. A decision that is taken after careful consideration helps us get better results.

We can see in many instances where decisions based on emotions only lead to more complications. Say, a CEO of a big company needs to step down and has to appoint someone to replace him. He has a pool of exceptional candidates to choose from but is also inclined to give the position to his own son who might be highly unqualified for this, only based on his emotions towards his son. This same CEO shall try to justify his choice to the whole company by citing reasons that might not be true. We can clearly see that this is an incorrect decision but the CEO in that moment cannot see past his emotions. This is a quality that makes him a poor decision maker. Moreover, one of the most striking attributes of an entrepreneur is said to be strong decision making capability which only comes through practical thinking. Another example is when people let their religious sentiments and emotions take over their pragmatic thinking and make decisions. For example, in India, feuds over religion has been going on for centuries. People are so swayed by their religious emotions that they try to justify their actions which include brutal killing, by using logic such as devotion to their god and politics.

However, it is very true that sometimes, we do need to take decisions based on our emotions and they turn out to give fruitful results. For example, when parents get old and it becomes difficult to take care of them while trying to manage one's own lives, a lot of the people tend to send their parents to oldage homes because certainly, they do have their own benefits. Analytically thinking, the pros of this decision definitely outweigh the cons. However, the people who refuse to think about it pragmatically but emotionally, stay with their parents and take care of them. This is still a decision that is based on emotions but this decision does not make someone a poor decision maker.

Therefore, letting our emotions govern our decisions and then justifying them later by using logic does make us poor decision makers. However, this statement might have its own exceptions.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, moreover, so, still, then, therefore, while, as to, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2743.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72931034483 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54890046472 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 215.323595506 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465517241379 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 874.8 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.912473941 60.3974514979 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.592592593 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4814814815 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55555555556 5.21951772744 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.323567918141 0.243740707755 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100576323253 0.0831039109588 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0872054933833 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220351685937 0.150359130593 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406236507339 0.0667264976115 61% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.15 12.1639044944 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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