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Why you research choices that barely matter

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Overthinking is an entirely useless sport. Information bias is the compulsive human need to gather significantly more data than is required to make a choice, solely because it makes us feel productive. We will read forty-five pages of reviews for a ten dollar toaster, completely ignoring that it has zero impact on the toast we are ultimately going to burn.

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