People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers
Our lives are full of decision-making, and some of these decisions we make are under an influence of emotions. The prompt argues that a decision made on emotions is probably poor if it is justified with logic afterward. I mostly agree with the prompt for three reasons.
First of all, emotions don’t account for the future well. You can’t plan several steps ahead with emotions. For instance, it would be wrong to select a university relying purely on emotions. Emotions may tell you that studying at one place would be more exciting than at the other one, but they won’t let you assess future job opportunities and scientific research potential. Such criteria should be evaluated before making the decision and that’s when logic and planning come to use.
Second, justifying the emotional decision with logic is a fallacy. It prevents the decision maker from changing his or her opinion after making the decision. For instance, if someone buys a sports car based on emotions, and then justifies the purchase with some logical arguments, like faster acceleration on the highways or more traction on wet roads, it will be harder for him to admit that the purchase was not that successful. Even if it becomes clear that driving a sports car is not convenient because of road quality and parking issues, it would be harder for this person to reconsider and buy a more practical car instead of this one. And the ability to reconsider is an important aspect of good decision-making.
However, it is still important to take emotions into account when making any decision. But one should account for future emotions, that will come as consequences of the decision, not the emotions during making it. Maybe buying a paperback book for studying instead of an electronic one is not very exciting by itself. Nevertheless, if the person enjoys reading paperback books, buying one may be well worth the price difference. The positive emotions may motivate this person to study more and achieve better results.
All things considered, making decisions based on emotions is not always a bad thing, especially when those emotions are indicative of emotions from the consequences of the decisions, but one should do some research and planning beforehand and should not try to justify those decisions with logic afterward.
| Post date | Users | Rates | Link to Content |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-08-30 | yixova3193 | 66 | view |
| 2023-11-03 | Aishwarya01 | 50 | view |
| 2023-10-09 | Truss | 50 | view |
| 2023-10-04 | Adesina Boluwatito | 50 | view |
| 2023-10-01 | shamika@25 | 50 | view |
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, still, then, well, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1934.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 383.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04960835509 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74726736916 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.522193211488 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.304876241 60.3974514979 116% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.789473684 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1578947368 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.31578947368 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.371841492023 0.243740707755 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129119116377 0.0831039109588 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.147539355913 0.0758088955206 195% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248166418746 0.150359130593 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.145038673471 0.0667264976115 217% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.01 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.93 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 100.480337079 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
---------------------
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.