People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
Emotional decisions tend to be erratic and short-sighted. It is therefore logical to assume that people who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic are poor decision makers. When faced with a conflicting situation, people tend to proffer knee-jerk reactions. This is famously known as the 'Flight or Fight' instinct.
People who tend to justify irrational decisions are susceptible to peril on two fronts. Firstly, such illogical reconciliations are indicative of an unwillingness to acknowledge one's shortcomings. For example, a compulsive shopper who maxes out his/her credit card debts is unlikely to ever come to terms with his demerits, especially if he/she convinced that his actions are logically sound. This could lead to a vicious cycle of poor choices and deleterious consequences.
Secondly, impulsive decisions are often ephemeral. One has to ensure that all stakeholders are consulted before arriving at a conclusive response. Emotional decisions are unlikely to be long standing. Legislatures and town councils that pass bills without due consultation often give rise to a multitude of other issues, thereby exacerbating the problem that they wished to avoid.
On the other hand, justifying poorly thought-out decisions presents a whole new problem. Justification not only affects the decision-maker, but also lacerates those who might have been affected by it in the first place. In addition, there is also the risk of bad rationale being used to inspire similar myopic responses elsewhere. When one's judgment is obscured by a false sense of correctness, he develops a propensity to justify all wrongdoings. In a classic example, a local police chief's decision to enforce stop-and-frisk measures led to a large number of minorities being persecuted needlessly. The reasoning behind this decision, albeit hollow impelled other precincts to follow suit. In the end, the entire county had developed a hostile attitude towards marginalized communities.
The negative impact of having unstable decision makers is quite profound, particularly in the spheres of government and law enforcement. Recently, a major government move to ban high denomination currency notes in order to curtail black market trade and corruption led to large-scale hoarding of newly printed currency notes and a destabilization of the economy. This in turn led to public outrage on the streets, bringing the entire nation to a standstill. Despite these repercussions, the dispensation was unwilling to backtrack on its policies, citing flippant reasons for its move. The probability of such decisions being repeated by other governments is significantly high.
It is therefore amply clear that people who make irrational decisions not just endanger themselves but also the people around them. When poor counsel prevails, such decisions can mutate and proliferate leading to other similar decisions. People who try to ensconce their deficiencies with shallow reasons are more likely to be poor and even harmful decision makers.
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Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, as to, for example, in addition, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2592.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 464.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58620689655 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14495412915 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 283.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609913793103 0.4932671777 124% => OK
syllable_count: 822.6 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.7950450263 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.0 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1851851852 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.22222222222 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 5.13820224719 292% => 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: 0.494157872714 0.243740707755 203% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123232901986 0.0831039109588 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.174048074791 0.0758088955206 230% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.262955691116 0.150359130593 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.184964319719 0.0667264976115 277% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 48.8420337079 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.96 8.38706741573 119% => OK
difficult_words: 161.0 100.480337079 160% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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