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 mostly agree 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 the role of emotions when making a decision.
People who makes decision based on emotions usually lack self-control. For example, impulsive shoppers who gets consumed with emotion will purchase an item that is fashionable and the latest fad without considering whether they really need the item. Impulsive shoppers are not able to discriminate between something that is a need than a necessity, that will lead to wasting money on unessential items. Advertisers and sales personnel, aware of this tendency, will exploit people by playing on their emotions in order to secure a purchase that one might come to regret later.
Emotion usually gets the better of sound decision and clouds judgement, and might result in someone not deliberating carefully about the potential ramifications of their actions. One example that lives vividly in many people’s mind is the decision of the Bush administration to invade Iraq after the 911 incident. Pressured by lobbyists and fueled by the frustration and anger of the general public to strike back at Osama, George Bush made the uncalculated move to send troops to Iraq, signalling the start of the Iraq war. It was a rash decision that costed 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 a decision is based on emotion. The adage ‘carpe diem’ or ‘seize the day’ suggests that one should let the heart rule over the head, and grab an opportunity when one arises. In other words, instinct and emotions can help aid in the decision-making process, rather than the sole dependence on logic. Many business honchos have made difficult decisions on the basis of gut feelings. For example, founder of US tech giant Apple, Steve Jobs made the bold move to drop the stylus from their iPhone range completely. He made the decision not based on solid empirical evidences but because he felt that customers would rather use ‘the best pointing device that they are born with, in fact 10 of them, which is their fingers’ than the cumbersome stylus. This decisions turned out to be a ‘stroke of pure genius’ in hindsight as the sales of the phone skyrocketed as compared to previous models.
In conclusion, we can there are cases where making a decision based on emotion are poor decision makers. However, some decisions can’t easily be made on the basis of logic alone, and making a choice guided by emotion and instinct could very often work wonders. Just as the brain and heart work in tandem to keep the human body functioning smoothly, one may assert that both emotions and logic are complementary to each other. Therefore, the truth to the statement is limited.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 105, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'someone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'deliberates'.
Suggestion: deliberates
...gement, and might result in someone not deliberating carefully about the potential ramificat...
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Line 5, column 390, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...led by the frustration and anger of the general public to strike back at Osama, George Bush ma...
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Line 7, 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 7, 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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Line 7, column 928, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...stylus. This decisions turned out to be a 'stroke of pure genius' in hi...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'regarding', 'so', 'therefore', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'in fact', 'such as', 'in other words']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.26656394453 0.240241500013 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.158705701079 0.157235817809 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0616332819723 0.0880659088768 70% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0508474576271 0.0497285424764 102% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0261941448382 0.0444667217837 59% => OK
Prepositions: 0.118644067797 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.0446841294299 0.0406280797675 110% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.74242027982 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0277349768875 0.030933414821 90% => OK
Particles: 0.00308166409861 0.0016655270985 185% => OK
Determiners: 0.0986132511556 0.0997080785238 99% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.020030816641 0.0249443105267 80% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.020030816641 0.0148568991511 135% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3439.0 2732.02544248 126% => OK
No of words: 572.0 452.878318584 126% => OK
Chars per words: 6.01223776224 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.58838876751 107% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.34965034965 0.366273622748 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.26048951049 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197552447552 0.200843997647 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.117132867133 0.132149295362 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74242027982 2.79330140395 98% => OK
Unique words: 310.0 219.290929204 141% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541958041958 0.48968727796 111% => OK
Word variations: 68.9334797969 55.4138127331 124% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 24.8695652174 23.380412469 106% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1735408715 59.4972553346 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.52173913 141.124799967 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8695652174 23.380412469 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.565217391304 0.674092028746 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 50.9185162663 51.4728631049 99% => OK
Elegance: 1.82352941176 1.64882698954 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218810464009 0.391690518653 56% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.101924589212 0.123202303941 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0512807131306 0.077325440228 66% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.546024427859 0.547984918172 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.12006528379 0.149214159877 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106378613216 0.161403998019 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.126030448916 0.0892212321368 141% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.415365116212 0.385218514788 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.109987780868 0.0692045440612 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191941510742 0.275328986314 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0953834641204 0.0653680567796 146% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 3.66592920354 246% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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