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As the Italian proverb that the French writer and philosopher Voltaire recorded in his Dictionnaire philosophique goes Il meglio linimico del bene the best is the enemy of the good. options it can be hard to decide what to eat Credit Getty Images When presented with a lot of good menu options it can be hard to decide what to eat Credit Getty Images Fortunately as I detail in my new book How to Expect the Unexpected randomness offers us a simple way to overcome choiceinduced analysis paralysis.
When faced with a multitude of choices many of which you would be happy to accept flipping a coin or letting a dice decide for you may be the better option. Sometimes making a quick good choice is better than making a slow perfect one or indeed being Mobile App Development Service paralysed into complete indecision. When struggling to choose between multiple options having a decision seemingly made for you by an external randomising agent can help you to focus in on your true preference. This randomised strategy can help us to envisage the consequences of what was up until that point an apparently abstract decision.
Recent experiments by a team of researchers at the University of Basel Switzerland have demonstrated that a randomly dictated decision prompt can help us to deal with the information overload that often precipitates analysis paralysis. Being forced to contemplate the opposite standpoint made participants more certain of their original choice than when the coin flip simply reinforced their first decision After reading some basic background information three groups of participants were asked to make a preliminary decision about whether to fire or rehire a hypothetical store manager.
When faced with a multitude of choices many of which you would be happy to accept flipping a coin or letting a dice decide for you may be the better option. Sometimes making a quick good choice is better than making a slow perfect one or indeed being Mobile App Development Service paralysed into complete indecision. When struggling to choose between multiple options having a decision seemingly made for you by an external randomising agent can help you to focus in on your true preference. This randomised strategy can help us to envisage the consequences of what was up until that point an apparently abstract decision.
Recent experiments by a team of researchers at the University of Basel Switzerland have demonstrated that a randomly dictated decision prompt can help us to deal with the information overload that often precipitates analysis paralysis. Being forced to contemplate the opposite standpoint made participants more certain of their original choice than when the coin flip simply reinforced their first decision After reading some basic background information three groups of participants were asked to make a preliminary decision about whether to fire or rehire a hypothetical store manager.