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MazeRat7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-17-06 01:05 PM
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Apparently this admin does not sleep....
Edited on Fri Feb-17-06 01:07 PM by MazeRat7
At least based on the "quality" and/or "correctness" of their choices...

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8732&feedId=online-news_rss20

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Sleeping on it' best for complex decisions

* 19:00 16 February 2006
* NewScientist.com news service
* Gaia Vince

Complex decisions are best left to your unconscious mind to work out, according to a new study, and over-thinking a problem could lead to expensive mistakes.

The research suggests the conscious mind should be trusted only with simple decisions, such as selecting a brand of oven glove. Sleeping on a big decision, such as buying a car or house, is more likely to produce a result people remain happy with than consciously weighing up the pros and cons of the problem, the researchers say.

Thinking hard about a complex decision that rests on multiple factors appears to bamboozle the conscious mind so that people only consider a subset of information, which they weight inappropriately, resulting in an unsatisfactory choice. In contrast, the unconscious mind appears able to ponder over all the information and produce a decision that most people remain satisfied with
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So there you have it - scientific proof that these guys are really not lying, deceiving, incompetent, rat bastards... they just never sleep. :sarcasm:

I'm guessing because it's all "hard work"...... :shrug:

MZr7
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