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People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers. Essay: Every person takes myriad decisions in the journey of life. Generally decisions are based upon multiple factors:emotions, logic, consequences of decisions, people involved in the situation. People choose the option with which they feel more comfortable then it may be based on emotion or logic. Let's consider a few examples: Staying away from family for better job opportunities, better education are one of the most important decisions for one's career. One person might choose to stay with the family and leave career opportunities because of emotional attachment with family, sometimes he needs to give emotional support to the family. Another person might choose to leave family and go for his/her dreams. First decision is based on emotions but still there is logic behind it, the person won't be happy after leaving his family. He feels good in his comfort zone. Maybe he does not have courage to go away, stay alone and make new friends, start a new life. For him emotional decision is logical. He has his own reasons. Second person likes to take challenges, explore the world, get out of his comfort zone. His decision is also based on emotions that he wants to grow and improve. He has logic and emotions in his decision. Does it mean that any one of them is a poor decision maker? No. They are good and happy with their own decisions. Both of them are able to justify their decision with logic. Maybe first person has taken decision based on emotions but still it is logical. Moderate amount of emotions are always logical. Let's consider country's important decisions. PM cannot take such decisions based on only emotions, because it will affect entire country. If he takes decisions based on emotions then he won't be able to justify it with apt logic. Even if he generates some logic then it will be fallacious. In this case, PM will be poor decision maker. CEO of a company cannot take decisions based only on emotions. There should be practical reasoning. Emotions should be important part of any decision because our happiness or sadness after decision is also a emotion. The way we will handle consequences of decision depends upon our emotions. If we are able to justify our decision with logic then definitely we are not poor decision makers. But whether we should focus more on emotions or practical approach depends upon the situation, consequences after decision, people involved in decision making.

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Please review my essay and help give an idea of the possible score range. The essay prompt was: People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers. My response: The statement about people who make decisions based on emotions and later justify them based on logic appears to be true in almost all cases. While it is true that, in certain cases, an emotional basis for decision making is often helpful, the logical aspects of any decision must not be ignored. A careful analysis of various situations shows that such an approach only lends to poor decision making ability. To see how the statement could hold true, consider some of the decisions that one makes in life. The buying of a car, purchasing of real-estate, choosing a career and so on are all examples in which a logical clarity of thought is vital to correct decision making. Without a logical basis for such decisions, people often end up not considering the nuances of issues, are unable to weigh the pros and cons and are often oblivious to any unconscious bias that they may be having to such decision making. The lack of a sound logical underpinning in such cases most commonly results in poor decisions and any attempts to justify such decisions with logical reasons at a later point would seem only futile. However, there are, undoubtedly, cases in which emotions do help a person in making right choices. Consider self-confidence and the mental strength to overcome failures. It is inevitable that an individual faces numerous setbacks in life, both personal and career-related. In such cases, a logical basis to decision making might not always be the complete approach. Consider a student who has consistently encountered failures in examinations. It might seem all too logical that he/she is unsuited for that particular course and it would be best to give up on it. However, the student might have emotional reasons to believe that sustained attempts might change matters. Such self-belief, which certainly comes under the category of emotions, is often helpful in ensuring that people discover their true potential in spite of setbacks. But, although such a resoning is acceptable, it must be ensured that logical aspects of decision-making are not ignored. A logical line of reasoning must also be maintained in such cases, along with emotional aspects, to ensure that no unreasonable measures are taken. Other instances where emotional bases to decisions can cause dangers are those of fanatical beliefs such as religious fanaticism and jingoism. Such extreme emotions blind people to logical clarity and result in them making unreasonable decisions, often resulting in violence and destruction to society. Such people often do attempt to justify their actions on the logical bases. However, such attempts are merely diversions by these individuals to seek support for their claims and this is a clear case where emotional blinding can cause problems. In conclusion, it is apparent that logical soundness is a crucial aspect of decision making and the two must always go hand-in-hand. Although, emotional aspects do help in certain circumstances, they certainly should not form the only basis for the judgement of any issue and must always be accompanied by a logical analysis of various aspects. Such an approach would greatly help in making successful decisions.

So I am currently in the Honours Econ program at McGill (technically joint honours) and, due to some financial and logistical considerations, I have a long-term decision I need to make within the next few months about what I want to do at the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. I am going to talk to my advisors about this too, but I thought I would put it out here and see what you guys think. Note that my long term goal is to pursue a PhD in econ. My current GPA in my econ program is 4.0, and while I will hopefully be able to maintain that, it might drop a bit if I get an A- at some point (obviously). So here are my options. 1. Stay a 4th year in undergrad. I can technically graduate in 3 years from McGill; if I do, my math background will be: 4 semesters of calc, 2 semesters of statistics, 1 semester of ODE, 1 semester of real analysis, 1 semester of linalg (plus 2 semesters of honours metrics, which I figure is basically a math course in itself; I may also be able to squeeze a math minor out of this, which would be great). Staying a 4th year would really just let me add a few more math courses and maybe take a 2nd or 3rd grad level econ course (I already will probably be taking one if I do three years). The downside is, obviously, paying for an extra year of school (which while not much by US standards is still not nothing since I'm an international student) 2. Get a masters in econ from a Canadian or English uni. Obviously I would still be paying for another year of school, but I am much more likely to get funding as a masters student (at least I know McGill gives their masters students TA positions sometimes, and I would probably be applying to McGill as one of these programs). 3. Get a masters in statistics at a Candian uni. I like this option because, at Canadian unis, math masters are usually partially or fully funded, and I really do enjoy statistics and think it would allow me to beef up my math profile at a lower cost than staying an extra year in undergrad. The only downside is I may have to go to a slightly lower-tier school for this degree, such as McMaster University or the University of Alberta, though I am hoping my connections at McGill might allow me to slide into their program as well. So tell me what you guys think. They are obviously none of them horrible options, I just have no idea which one will be best for me financially and in terms of setting me up for a good PhD admissions profile!

#Issue "People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers." #Response Decisions are made in instances where outcomes rely on the choices we choose. Most of the decisions are not just based on mathematical logic of more or less rather emotional intelligence have to be tackle to make an outcome. Emotions do alter our decision making but getting to the conclusion on making of it based on your own emotions does not create a good decision. People doing such decision making knows that they have not used there rational ability of making logical outcome then try to show with justifying what benefits there decision is making from there view point. Suppose a police officer whose duty is to stop crime, one day he lost his house because of some calamity and lose his all saving, his all memories and become emotionally deprived. And after that instance on his duty he is been offered a bribe to ignore a criminal case in which victim killed someone intentionally, in that situation if he accepts the money because of his need at that time and was upset because of his loss. And without making any rational decision that the criminal victim can create more crimes in future, he accepts the money and latter when he is been asked why did he took this decision ? he explains that the victim was innocent as he killed somebody in his own protection because that other guy was going to kill him. So such decision was poor and bad. Emotional thinking is well necessary for making decisions but only to a certain extent. If a person is handicap that he is not having legs and there are many peoples who have dissablity in making motor functioning of there body parts. If govenment ignores them and does not create public infrastructure for feasiblity of such peoples because goenment wants to save money, then this will be very bad thing to do. Because those people are unfortunate there help is necessary. So govenment will built infrsatcure according to them also which will show rationality and emotionality of decision making at same time. So decisions should be made on keeping both the things in mind rational and emotional intelligence both are required in decision making.