Monday, 5 March 2018

Too many choices

I often wonder why it becomes more difficult to find any sort of match when the choice goes up and that the quality of choice, once made, seems to go down. For example, deciding what to eat from a very large menu is often harder than from a menu with just a few options. And once I have made the choice, I find am more likely to think it was the wrong one. You would think that in large, highly populated city, you are more likely to find the perfect matched mate than in a small country village. This appears not to be the case.

Given we only have one brain with limited processing power, the cost of searching a large selection must be much greater than a small selection and give less overall time to deciding if that is the best selection.

A solution I am going to try is to reduce the selection set arbitrarily to 2 and throw out the one I like least, then keep on comparing two at a time until I get through the set.

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