People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers.
Decisions are a part of our quotidian life. Every now and then we encounter situations where we have to choose between two seemingly appropriate things. While some decisions are easy to make, such as deciding between which flavour of ice-cream to eat for dessert, other decisions are comparatively tough to make, and require thorough deliberation. The method to arrive at a conclusion, the algorithm used to make a decision, differs from people to people.
For some people, emotional feelings affect their decision making. For example, a mother would hesitate to allow to send her child off to college far away from home, even though it is for the sake for his/her bright future. They might back it up with logics such as "The child will get spoiled if fallen in a bad company" or "He/she is too immature to live alone" etc. In these cases, the emotional side of a person is shadowing over the logical side. This is why, the logic provided to bolster the emotional decision already made is forced and hence is prone to be fallacious.
Another example that explains emotionally driven decision making involves religion and religious people. The doctrine of religion is based on faith and belief, and not on logic. A person who believes in God does not need evidence of God, he/she just accepts the existence of God to be a universal truth and acts and makes decisions accordingly. Hence, more often than not we see religious people and organizations using scientific principles to try to bolster and justify their belief. People claiming of divine powers and revelations in their holy books often forcibly associate them with science.
Another interesting example can be found in the movie Interstellar. Dr. Brand makes a decision to explore Edmund's planet because of her love for Edmunds. She then backs up her decision with absurd logic having no scientific basis. Even though her decision ended up being correct and favourable, it was just a matter of coincidence. Since one has already made up his/her mind through emotional inclinations, any logic or explanation given in favour of that decision will be a forced one and hence unreliable.
On the other hand, a decision made with deliberate logical thinking, is devoid of presumptions and thus there are no emotional or other restrictions present to affect the decision making process. Once a person is free of preconceptions, he/she can make a decision which is cogent and hence has higher chances of being favourable. However, it is not always possible to free oneself of prejudice and emotions. This takes us to the famous trolley problems. The famous question that whether you will run a train over 5 unknown people or over 1 person very close to you? In such cases, neither of the two decisions are correct or incorrect, because a prejudice will always be a factor which is impossible to remove.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 45, Rule ID: EVERY_NOW_AND_THEN[1]
Message: Use simply 'now and then'.
Suggestion: Now and then
...sions are a part of our quotidian life. Every now and then we encounter situations where we have t...
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Line 3, column 113, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'sending'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: sending
...ample, a mother would hesitate to allow to send her child off to college far away from ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, hence, however, if, so, then, thus, while, for example, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2406.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 481.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00207900208 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78268040531 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 262.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544698544699 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 772.2 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.3383709892 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.24 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.24 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => 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: 0.38479803609 0.243740707755 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104209091487 0.0831039109588 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795599488223 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.217844053415 0.150359130593 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320880526352 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => 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: 11.72 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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