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 pos

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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.

This statement asserts that it is a bad idea to make a decision based on emotion and reason the decision with logic afterward. I generally agree with this argument for the following reason.

First of all, the most important factor I consider is that decision made based on emotion are likely to be influenced by reasons that have nothing to do with the pros and cons of the decision. Take interview as an instance. If the interviewer has a bad day before interviewing a candidate, he or she might decide not to admit the person if the decision is made based on the emotion. In this case, it is totally unfair if the candidate is very strong, and the decision is surely terrible.

The further reason for my view is that after the decision is made, people tends to come up with excuses to justify the decision. Let's continue with the previous example. If the interviewer start to do logical reasoning after decision is made, he or she may keep seeing the flaws of the candidate and ignore the good attributes the interviewee bear. It is human nature that people want to justify for themselves and hard to change their own idea once it is made. Therefore, logical thinking should be applied before the decision become solid.

Opponents may argue that for some cases, our feelings can help us make better decisions. Admittedly, for problems such as choosing boyfriend or girlfriend, emotion is very important since it shows if you are truly happy when you are with the person. However, many research also shows some criteria can effectively help people to find Mr. or Ms. Right. For example, if two persons have the same interests or if the life schedule are similar. Therefore, it cannot be denied that logical thinking would helps a lot on making good decisions at the first place.

To sum up, given the reasons discussed above, we may come to the conclusion that it is not wise to make a decision simply according to emotion in most scenarios, not only because this decision is likely to be driven by bias, but also because people tends to make plausible excuses for the decision if it has already made.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, therefore, for example, such as, first of all, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1744.0 2235.4752809 78% => OK
No of words: 371.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.70080862534 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51439285833 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 215.323595506 88% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512129380054 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 566.1 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.1051903694 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.588235294 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8235294118 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.64705882353 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.374162993458 0.243740707755 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118161494404 0.0831039109588 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953698134392 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232358067239 0.150359130593 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0842264682045 0.0667264976115 126% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.98 12.1639044944 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 100.480337079 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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