Claim: When one is making a decision, it is better to have a limited number of options.
Reason: The more options a person has, the more difficult it is to make a rational decision.
People always make decisions in their daily lives. Specifically, they choose what to eat for lunch, whether to drink an additional cup of coffee to keep fatigue away, and so on. The given prompt presents the claim that it is better off having a limited number of options followed by a reason. I mostly agree with this claim for two reasons, including the given one, but I do concede that having variety of choices do give more freedom.
First of all, if more options are given to a person, he or she is more likely to have difficulty choosing one than when there are fewer options. Specifically, people should consider numerous aspects to make the best choice among other options. They should compare and contrast pros and cons of one choice and another consecutively. As the number of choices increases, it becomes more cumbersome for people to make decisions. For instance, consider a man is deciding what rent to choose. The man should consider various factors, such as the price, location, security, and so on. If there are only two choices to consider, it would not take a long time to make decision which house to choose. However, if there are eleven possible options to choose, theoretically, he should compare options considering numerous aspects fifty five times to come up with the best decision. This example illustrates that having more options increases the difficulty of making decisions due to the increased complexity in decision-making process.
Secondly, besides that more options complicates making decision, having various choices can also decrease the satisfaction after one makes decision. Specifically, if one chooses an option A, and there are twelve other options that might have been chosen, one may think what if he or she has chosen another option. For instance, presume that a woman visits a restaurant and there were five kinds of steaks available. However, since she does not have sufficient money to try all the options, she has to force herself to choose one. In this case, assume that she chose a lamb steak. Then, she is likely to ruminate what if she has chosen pork steak instead of the lamb. If this keep lingering in her mind, she is less likely to be satisfied with the current decision. Furthermore, a number of psychological studies have shown that the more the options are given to a person, his or her satisfaction after decision is significantly decreased. These examples present that having more choices can decrease one?s contentment in his or her decision. He or she is much more likely to regret making the current decision and keep thinking about alternatives.
However, I do concede that having various options can grant freedom of choice. For example, suppose that a person can have only two options when choosing a beverage: orange juice or lemonade. Even if he or she wants to drink a diet coke, he or she is forced to choose between these two beverages. On the other hand, if the person is given a comprehensive options of beverages, he or she can choose a drink without considering the restraint. It is obvious that the latter case has more freedom than the former. This example shows that bestowing variety when making choices can eliminate restrictions and give more freedom. In this aspect, it can be argued that having more options is more desirable.
In conclusion, since having more options lead to the increased difficulty of decision-making process and the decreased satisfaction of one?s decision, it is better off having a limited number of options. However, it is true that having more options can give more freedom to people when making their decisions. From these aspects, I mostly agree that a limited scope of options is more desirable than a broad scope of options.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => 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: 3119.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 631.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94294770206 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01195704033 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70402492115 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.415213946117 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 998.1 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 23.0 6.24550561798 368% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.1009705335 60.3974514979 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.5151515152 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1212121212 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.482553240445 0.243740707755 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136695390901 0.0831039109588 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118193906489 0.0758088955206 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.326208766285 0.150359130593 217% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0842277665166 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.38706741573 87% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, such as, first of all, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => 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: 3119.0 2235.4752809 140% => OK
No of words: 631.0 442.535393258 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94294770206 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01195704033 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70402492115 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.415213946117 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 998.1 704.065955056 142% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 23.0 6.24550561798 368% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.1009705335 60.3974514979 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.5151515152 118.986275619 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1212121212 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.21951772744 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.482553240445 0.243740707755 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.136695390901 0.0831039109588 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118193906489 0.0758088955206 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.326208766285 0.150359130593 217% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0842277665166 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.38706741573 87% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.