Does it matter a lot? People are screwing up decisions that don’t matter so they can focus on what they actually care about. This has terrible consequences when we take a sum of opinions on complex issues, so I guess that matters.
They’re not screwing up only decisions that don’t matter, they’re also screwing up decisions that don’t matter to them. But many of those decisions matter quite a lot! The entire phenomenon of bike-shedding happens due to people focusing on the wrong things: things that they can trivially and lazily understand. Bike-shedding was first observed and described in the context of people designing nuclear power generating stations.
So in summary, some of the decisions people make are very important. Some of the people making those decisions are screwing them up because they are dumb, with rushing being a contributing but not exclusive factor, a factor that applies just as much in real life as it does in studies.
Does it matter a lot? People are screwing up decisions that don’t matter so they can focus on what they actually care about. This has terrible consequences when we take a sum of opinions on complex issues, so I guess that matters.
They’re not screwing up only decisions that don’t matter, they’re also screwing up decisions that don’t matter to them. But many of those decisions matter quite a lot! The entire phenomenon of bike-shedding happens due to people focusing on the wrong things: things that they can trivially and lazily understand. Bike-shedding was first observed and described in the context of people designing nuclear power generating stations.
So in summary, some of the decisions people make are very important. Some of the people making those decisions are screwing them up because they are dumb, with rushing being a contributing but not exclusive factor, a factor that applies just as much in real life as it does in studies.