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.
The statement elucidates how difficult making decisions without some sort of dissonance is: "Did I make the right one? Will I regret it later? How much more time could I have spent on it?" These are all expected thoughts, hence the motivation to make a decision based on emotion. Examples include being stuck at an impasse or starting a new lifestyle, as these are all life choices so gut-wrenching that it is easier to go by "what your heart tells you." While it makes sense that these people are not effectively poor decision makers, there are cases when making decisions by emotion indicate poor decision-making, regardless of how much logic you justify it with.
When changing lifestyles, it is easier to make a decision based on emotion. Frightened by how much thought, time, and effort you have spent, you would simply leave your job and search for a new one. And having children at a late age (or even adopting)? Having anxiety over such a decision is not surprising. Even moving to a different country -- such a decision is one that can give anyone an endless amount of anxiety. For a person in such a position, it is easier to make the decision and justify their behavior by saying, "It was easier." If anything, this does not make them poor decision-makers; this behavior makes them rational, self-confident, and introspective individuals who know the psychological stress of making a decision so large.
Additionally, consider when stuck at an impasse. It is much easier to make a decision based on emotion. Perhaps you are a member of a foreign policy committee. You have an enormous burden, and while you knew that stress was impending, you did not know the extent of it. You are afraid to tell other members for fear of ostracization. You also know that your logic holds true, but there are so many counterfactual events that indicate "sanctioning Country X is the worse of two evils." Hence, you choose based on emotion. You have become psychologically entrapped by your predilection. In other words, you choose because you preferred a certain decision from the getgo. Granted, you should deciding based on cognitive biases, but psychological entrapment is not something easily avoidable. Similar to the person making a lifestyle change decision, this person is not a poor-decision maker; they simply are affected by psychological phenomena.
However, there are cases where decisions based on emotion cannot be justified by logic: alcoholics. Because of their inebriation, an alcoholic's thinking is impaired. They cannot think clearly because they are fatigued from the depression alcohol places upon them, not to mention that they cannot even think clearly. An alcoholic might say, "Just one more drink. It won't do any harm." The next day, that same person will wake up sick. How can he or she justify their behavior? He or she might say, "I was drunk, so you can't blame me." Quite the opposite: His or her emotion, namely the desire to drink more, pushed him or her over the limit. And the next day, he or she can try to justify such an action laconically: "I was drunk." However, his or her emotions were significantly altered; in other words, their motivation, while clearly genuine, had very little logic behind it. Hence, they indeed were a poor decision-maker.
The last decision-maker indicates something of immense importance regarding the intersection between emotion and logic. Emotion is often fueled by logic, but sometimes, emotion is not actually justified by logic. With the person making a lifestyle change, he or she is making a decision based on emotion, but they had logic; the logic was simply not enough to overcome their anxiety. With the person making a foreign policy decision, he or she is making a decision based on emotion, but they had logic, too; the logic was simply not enough to overcome their cognitive bias. When emotion has no logical foundation--perhaps you were drunk or drugged, you were in a "fight or flight" mode after being raped--you likely make poor decisions. This is the difference between a person who makes decisions based on emotion and justifies with good logic in contrast to one that makes them based on emotion and justifies with bad logic: Their emotions, at the very least, make sense -- but they were unable to fully flesh out and complete their decision-making. This does not make them poor decision-makers; this makes them accurate, self-reflecting individuals who know their limits.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ther members for fear of ostracization. You also know that your logic holds true, b...
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...os; Hence, you choose based on emotion. You have become psychologically entrapped b...
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Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'justifies'.
Suggestion: justifies
...on will wake up sick. How can he or she justify their behavior? He or she might say, &a...
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...he might say, 'I was drunk, so you cant blame me.' Quite the opposite: His...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... you were drunk or drugged, you were in a 'fight or flight' mode after ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, regarding, so, while, in contrast, sort of, in contrast to, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 98.0 33.0505617978 297% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 12.9106741573 225% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3802.0 2235.4752809 170% => OK
No of words: 744.0 442.535393258 168% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11021505376 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.22267779917 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99145257933 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 332.0 215.323595506 154% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44623655914 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1214.1 704.065955056 172% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 34.0 6.24550561798 544% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 36.0 20.2370786517 178% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 85.1005215344 60.3974514979 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.611111111 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.19444444444 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 20.0 5.13820224719 389% => Less 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: 0.379961377785 0.243740707755 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107125490906 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792875455596 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249479869337 0.150359130593 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0848494989911 0.0667264976115 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 161.0 100.480337079 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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