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.
‘Follow your heart, but remember to take your brain with you’ is a well-known saying that recommends logical thinking before jumping to emotional conclusions, in real-life situations. The prompt claims that people who make choices based on their feelings, then attempt to logically justify them later, are poor at making decisions. In my opinion, I agree with this sentiment to a certain extent. There may be some situations, in fact, where one's emotions could result in good decisions. However, judging the validity of the prompt's claim would require us to delve into two main points.
First, humans are emotional beings, and as humans we constantly find ourselves in situations where logic conflicts with our feelings, and we are forced to pick one, then try and adjust the other. What does this mean? Consider the Turkish general elections of 2023: The people overwhelmingly voted in favour of the incumbent president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Most of these voters cite that they strongly believed in his values, and felt that he should continue to be the president. Culture wars and other debates aside, a curious fact about this election is that the Southern provinces of Turkey which were hard hit by the Syrian-Turkish earthquakes of 2023 voted strongly in favour of Erdogan, despite heavily delayed government-funded rescue services. They chose their candidate solely based on their feelings, without laying down the logic first. The logic that does happen to appear later is based on the portrayal of competing candidates painted by Erdogan, due to the nature of the media bodies being essentially a government extension, as found by most external journalists. However, did the voters think about what the government's response would be, in the event of another earthquake? Did they logically think about whether their preferred candidate would mitigate a potentially worse natural disaster in the future, and if the current government really did their best in the previous one? As we can see, such kinds of logical reasoning are important, especially in the democratic process. This 'Turkish' issue is simply a microcosm of humans as a whole; we are extremely susceptible to falling back on our emotions when making decisions, and good decisions are significantly more likely to arise when we first build a foundation of logic.
Another thing to consider about the kind of people described in the prompt, is that, such people make the assumption that their feelings are true, and that logic will naturally follow from it always. If the heart says 1 + 1 = 3, then there must be a way, surely, right? But we cannot always just go with gut-feelings. Such leaps of faith have their time and place; in a situation where there is no time whatsoever to evaluate logic. Consider the case of students picking what discipline to major in, at college. If they do so solely with emotion, just based on what subjects they like, they may enter a field where the job market is small, and their degree may be in vain. Had they logically considered some kind of middle ground between their interests and the current state of the job market, they would be in a much better place in their career. This goes to show that logic is not something to push for later: Critical decisions that could be life-defining require thorough reasoning. It is not often that we must make decisions within seconds, and given the time available, one should logically evaluate possible outcomes of decisions before committing to a choice.
In conclusion, this issue is not a black-and-white one, and has no easy answers. In situations where there is not much time to make a decision, gut-feelings could pay off more than reasoning it out; the time wasted in the initial steps of logic could instead be used to utilise one's emotions to figure something out. Sure, it would be convenient to be able to use logic for everything. But after all, we are human, and must consult our feelings in the situations that demand it. Hence, people who make decisions based on emotion and then justify those decisions with logic afterwards would, on average, be relatively poor decision-makers, albeit there is room for further debate.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 442, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... may be some situations, in fact, where ones emotions could result in good decisions...
^^^^
Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: TRY_AND[1]
Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
...gs, and we are forced to pick one, then try and adjust the other. What does this mean? ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 1126, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...er, did the voters think about what the governments response would be, in the event of anot...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 193, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[3]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually not used at the end of a sentence.
...hat logic will naturally follow from it always. If the heart says 1 + 1 = 3, then ther...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 279, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... logic could instead be used to utilise ones emotions to figure something out. Sure,...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, really, second, so, then, well, after all, another thing, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3501.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 697.0 442.535393258 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02295552367 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.13816675137 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72168961046 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 364.0 215.323595506 169% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522238163558 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 1073.7 704.065955056 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 13.0 1.77640449438 732% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.3898197613 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.7 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2333333333 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246176392397 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594869215057 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819195084977 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16822498476 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0550099137478 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 162.0 100.480337079 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 442, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... may be some situations, in fact, where ones emotions could result in good decisions...
^^^^
Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: TRY_AND[1]
Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
...gs, and we are forced to pick one, then try and adjust the other. What does this mean? ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 1126, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
...er, did the voters think about what the governments response would be, in the event of anot...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 193, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[3]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually not used at the end of a sentence.
...hat logic will naturally follow from it always. If the heart says 1 + 1 = 3, then ther...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 279, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
... logic could instead be used to utilise ones emotions to figure something out. Sure,...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, really, second, so, then, well, after all, another thing, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.5258426966 169% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3501.0 2235.4752809 157% => OK
No of words: 697.0 442.535393258 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02295552367 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.13816675137 4.55969084622 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72168961046 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 364.0 215.323595506 169% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522238163558 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 1073.7 704.065955056 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 13.0 1.77640449438 732% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.38483146067 251% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.3898197613 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.7 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2333333333 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.7 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246176392397 0.243740707755 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0594869215057 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819195084977 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16822498476 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0550099137478 0.0667264976115 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 162.0 100.480337079 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.