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  2. How many decisions do we make each day? A new study reveals - AOL

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    Various internet sources have deduced that overall we make an eye-popping 35,000 choices per day. Of this number, 227 choices daily are made on just food alone according to researchers at Cornell ...

  3. Decision fatigue - Wikipedia

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    Decision fatigue is a phrase popularised by John Tierney, and is the tendency for peoples’ decision making to become impaired as a result of having recently taken multiple decisions. [ 5 ] Decision fatigue has been hypothesised to be a symptom, or a result of ego depletion . [ 6 ]

  4. Hungry judge effect - Wikipedia

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    A study of the decisions of Israeli parole boards was made in 2011. [2] It found that the granting of parole was 65% at the start of a session but would drop to nearly zero before a meal break. [ 2 ] The authors suggested that mental depletion as a result of fatigue caused decisions to increasingly favour the status quo, while rest and ...

  5. Hick's law - Wikipedia

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    Hick's law, or the Hick–Hyman law, named after British and American psychologists William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman, describes the time it takes for a person to make a decision as a result of the possible choices: increasing the number of choices will increase the decision time logarithmically. The Hick–Hyman law assesses cognitive ...

  6. Decision intelligence - Wikipedia

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    Although distinctly different, this practice draws on much of the same decision-making research as does decision intelligence (such as, for the example, the work of behavioral economist Richard Thaler). Cost engineering measures the costs of engineering projects. Cost engineering is sometimes grouped into product engineering and design ...

  7. Tyranny of small decisions - Wikipedia

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    The article describes a situation where a series of small, individually rational decisions can negatively change the context of subsequent choices, even to the point where desired alternatives are irreversibly destroyed. Kahn described the problem as a common issue in market economics which can lead to market failure. [1]

  8. Drivers handed 35,000 parking tickets a day amid five-year ...

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    Motoring research charity the RAC Foundation said drivers are being ‘badly let down’ by the delay in ministers introducing a code of conduct. Drivers handed 35,000 parking tickets a day amid ...

  9. Farsighted (book) - Wikipedia

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    Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most (2018) is a nonfiction book by American journalist Steven Johnson. Key concepts ...