People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

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People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.

Decision making is an essential process in today’s world. Be it a workplace, school, home, government, military or a business organization, decision making plays a major role in everyday life. The author states two claims. First, people who make decision based on emotion are poor decision makers. Second, justifying those decisions with logic is also poor decision making. I strongly agree with both the claims made by the author.

Making decision based only on emotions takes into account of our instincts or the so called gut feeling. Such decisions do not hold any logic. In the contemporary world, any decision cannot be solely taken on the basis of emotion. We need to justify our decisions to others and that cannot be done unless we explain the reasoning behind making such a decision. Consider a basic example of a child demanding for a mobile phone from his parents. Parents cannot gift their children a mobile phone emotionally. They need to think logically and smartly in order to make such decision. Several factors like its need, relevance, advantages and disadvantages need to be taken into account and then make a decision logically. Consider an example of a student who has passed tenth grade and is left to choose a suitable field of study in high school. Such a student cannot make a decision solely on emotions or instincts to choose the field of study. Many factors need to be taken into account like the passion, aptitude, intelligence, areas of interest, career plans etc. Taking these into account will then lead a student to take a sound decision of the relevant field of study to choose in high school.

Also, such decisions based only on emotions do not take into account of the facts, evidences, history, empirical data and records. Consider an example of an investigation of a murder case or a scandal, decisions need to be sound and justifiable based on the evidences and facts which are garnered as a part of investigation. Making decisions solely on emotions will lead biased decision making and won’t provide justice to the citizens. Consider another example of a business corporation which is planning for making huge investments in potential sectors in the years to come. Making decisions involving such huge capital cannot be made solely on the basis of emotions. Proper market research involving statistical approach need to be done for making such a decision.

In addition to making decisions emotionally, justifying them with logic prove them to be lame and flimsy. Justifying those decisions with logic partially take into account the reasoning with proper logic involved behind taking such decisions. As a result, such decision tend to be illogical and result in being a catastrophe. Consider the example of a military organization planning to retaliate to the recent attacks on its soldiers. Making decision of revenge and retaliation cannot be taken solely on basis of the emotions and sentiments behind loss of their soldiers. Proper and sound planning along with a perfect strategy and timeline need to be taken into account behind making such decisions.

Hence, I conclude by asserting that sound decision making cannot be solely made on the basis of emotions. In addition to emotions, various other elements such as empirical evidences, statistics, facts, history, records, strategy, proper planning need to be taken into account for making a proper decision. Then, only we can be called sound decision makers.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, second, so, then, in addition, such as, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2915.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 567.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14109347443 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87972968509 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73755657043 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.414462081129 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 936.0 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.3851966798 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.3333333333 118.986275619 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1818181818 23.4991977007 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.27272727273 5.21951772744 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.445151011615 0.243740707755 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.149479133564 0.0831039109588 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.150103759086 0.0758088955206 198% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.32112189067 0.150359130593 214% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.156250960253 0.0667264976115 234% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 11.8971910112 42% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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