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fatigue
Your decision quality deteriorates throughout the long workday.
A 2011 analysis of 1,100 judicial rulings found that parole approval rates dropped from 65% to zero as the day progressed.
Decision fatigue is a finite resource. As you make consecutive choices, your ability to exert self-control and process complex information depletes, causing you to default to the easiest or most passive option.
The most important decisions of your day should never be made last.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Danziger, Levav, and Avnaim-Pesso, 2011
- What the check found
- The claim accurately reflects the primary findings of the 2011 Danziger et al. study, though the interpretation of those findings as purely 'decision fatigue' remains a subject of academic debate.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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