"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 p

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"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.

People often have to make decisions that defines the course of their lives. Such important decisions generally accompany an emotional element. When that much is at stake, a surge of emotion is natural. But do that emotion actually reduces the power of decision making? Some capricious people take decisions based on feelings, on the other hand some can remain steady and make a decision based on logics, setting all the emotions aside. Naturally, logics, rather than emotion, is a more vital factor when choosing the right thing to do. Logical people tend to make better decisions than those people who rely on their emotions and justifiy their decisions with logics later.
Emotions are inherent trait of human beings. They have been passed around from generations to generations for a reason. Obviously, emotions play a role while deliberating over options. But its also true that, what makes humans better than all other creatures is their power of making logical assumptions trumping emotions. Not to be overhelmed by emotion while making an important decision is always the wise thing to do. Also, excessive emotion can actually reduce the capacity for thinking clearly. Researchers have found that, emotions accelerates the secretion of various hormones in human body. Many of these hormones impeded the natural process of certain parts of the brain, the part where logics and decisions are processed inclusive. So, safe to assume that, decisions made relying on emotions have a high chance of being based on poor logic, and so more likely to bring unfavorable consequences.
Additionally, people who make decisions based upon emotion, can often back their choice with logics later. This might seem a bit puzzling. After all, they can provide strong reasons and logics in favor of their position, does not matter before making the decision or afterwards. But here lies another human psychological factor, a little trick our brain plays on us to keep us happy with whatever choice we make. Psychologists conducted various tests and then found that, our perception about something is selective, biased. Before making a choice, humans consider both the advantages and disadvantages of each and every option. But once they choose a particular option, they tend to remeber only the advantages and forget the disadvantages over time. A friend of mine was looking to buy a house. He visited several houses in several locations, and narrowed down his choices to two houses. Now, one house was large but in a bad neighborhood and another house was smaller than what he was looking for, but at a good location. He decided to go for the second one, though that was a bit small. After about two years, he was talking to me about how happy he is about his house. When I asked him whether the house is small, he was surprised and asserted that, the house is larger than his requirement. Now, my friend did not necessarily made the decision based upon emotion. But his case shows that, any choice- favorable or unfavorable, can be backed up by logic later. In fact, that is how human brain is hardwired.
Some might argue that, when a person lets his emotion take over, he actually bases his decision upon intuitions. And yes, human intuition is a very powerful tool, honed by thousand of years of evolution, that can surprise us quite often. But intuition is a hit or miss process. Experience plays a huge part in the development of intuitions in a person, and experience comes from making choices, learning from them. Learning from experience means learning to think critically and logically, weighing all the options. So, it will be inaccurate to say that, intuition and logic are two seperate things.
It can be said from the above discussion that, relying on logic rather than emotion increases the chance to make better decisions. It does not mean that, the decisions taken whimsically will always be the worse one. But logic and pondering over all the options, considering each of their pros and cons tends to enable humans more to select the right option.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1333, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'did' requires base form of the verb: 'make'
Suggestion: make
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'also', 'but', 'if', 'look', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'while', 'after all', 'in fact', 'on the other hand']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.204693611473 0.240241500013 85% => OK
Verbs: 0.174706649283 0.157235817809 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0886571056063 0.0880659088768 101% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0560625814863 0.0497285424764 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0508474576271 0.0444667217837 114% => OK
Prepositions: 0.110821382008 0.12292977631 90% => OK
Participles: 0.0495436766623 0.0406280797675 122% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.58414245229 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0247718383312 0.030933414821 80% => OK
Particles: 0.0026075619296 0.0016655270985 157% => OK
Determiners: 0.0873533246415 0.0997080785238 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0143415906128 0.0249443105267 57% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.019556714472 0.0148568991511 132% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 4055.0 2732.02544248 148% => OK
No of words: 679.0 452.878318584 150% => OK
Chars per words: 5.97201767305 6.0361032391 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10466731938 4.58838876751 111% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.351988217968 0.366273622748 96% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.251840942563 0.280924506359 90% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.179675994109 0.200843997647 89% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.111929307806 0.132149295362 85% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58414245229 2.79330140395 93% => OK
Unique words: 335.0 219.290929204 153% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493372606775 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 63.3871059432 55.4138127331 114% => OK
How many sentences: 41.0 20.6194690265 199% => Less sentences wanted.
Sentence length: 16.5609756098 23.380412469 71% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8531550255 59.4972553346 59% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.9024390244 141.124799967 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5609756098 23.380412469 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.292682926829 0.674092028746 43% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 41.745069866 51.4728631049 81% => OK
Elegance: 1.2962962963 1.64882698954 79% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.323923807539 0.391690518653 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0771433712968 0.123202303941 63% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0836154112338 0.077325440228 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.358228391367 0.547984918172 65% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.127652750598 0.149214159877 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913735524995 0.161403998019 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0660196714983 0.0892212321368 74% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.33234269213 0.385218514788 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0652166473607 0.0692045440612 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22898454815 0.275328986314 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0573563607888 0.0653680567796 88% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 21.0 10.4325221239 201% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.88274336283 266% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 16.0 7.22455752212 221% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 9.0 2.70907079646 332% => OK
Total topic words: 29.0 13.5995575221 213% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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