People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
The discussion on the interplay between logic and emotion is one as old as the hills. Some consider themselves hardline emotion supporters, while some believe logic must precede and influence any decision in life. Rarely does it seem there is a happy medium between the two. I believe people who make decisions with emotion and justify with logic ex post facto are not inherently bad decision-makers and there are a few examples to support this belief.
In modern debate and media, there seems to be a stigma against making decisions with one's feelings. This side of the conversation does little to recognize the average human makes innumerable decisions in their daily life based on feelings rather than facts and logic. At the most basic level, think about the way in which you make a decision about what clothes you are going to wear. Yes, the weather that day -- the fact of the matter -- does dictate what you wear, however I contest feelings -- for example, the texture, color, comfortability and size -- of an article of clothing influences your decision more than logic and facts. This reliance on feelings does not make you a bad decision-maker. Relying on your intuition, trust and identity can make for a good decision in itself.
Further, and on a more serious and consequential level, people usually make some of their biggest life decisions on feelings. In (traditional) chronological order, people sometimes choose their college, their husband, wife or partner and the first house they buy with emotion and feelings. Now, yes, these decisions are usually influenced by the facts and logic of the matter. For example, when choosing a college a student is more than likely considering the cost and return on investment of attending a particular college over another. Likewise, a person is more than likely considering the resale value, price per square foot and the quality of the roof, windows and heater when buying a home. That said, there are innumerable examples of non-quantitative measures that can influence a person's decision regarding the choice of a college and the purchase of a home. In the example of the college choice, a prospective student might heavily consider the way in which the campus looks or feels, the quality of the food in the dining hall and the budding relationship they might have with a professor. In the example of the home, a person might be influenced by qualitative factors like the friendliness of the neighbors, the quality of the local schools and the feel and look of the nearby houses. To reiterate, the consideration of these emotional factors -- ones not always rooted in fact -- doesn't make a person a poor decision-maker.
To conclude, again, there is value in logic when making decisions, but just because you use emotion doesn't mean you're doomed to failure. Such thinking is supported by many consumer and personal choices hundreds and thousands of people make in their daily lives.
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
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Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 11.1786427146 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2455.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 489.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.02044989775 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70248278971 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74797678123 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 204.123752495 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501022494888 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 779.4 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
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Chars per sentence: 116.904761905 119.503703932 98% => OK
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Discourse Markers: 3.95238095238 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
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Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
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Sentence topic coherence: 0.121175553674 0.0743258471296 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101531976782 0.0701772020484 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.238329604249 0.128457276422 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100282500639 0.0628817314937 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 98.500998004 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 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.