It certainly will sometimes: I suspect that sometimes both options are acceptable to me, and neither will feel like a great loss if not followed; in this case I will likely end up following the coin.
Or I ‘hiddenly’ dread both options, or would feel either as loss, in which case I will recoil against the choice of the coin (and possibly recoil again against the other option as well, leaving back where I started.)
But I generally use this when I am otherwise indecisive, where further analysis is more trouble than it’s worth. So even when the randomness leads me astray, it doesn’t cost me much.
Exactly. The point is to elicit the hidden opinion, which is presumed to be “good enough”.
I expect the result of this experiment to depend on which side the coin actually came up.
It certainly will sometimes: I suspect that sometimes both options are acceptable to me, and neither will feel like a great loss if not followed; in this case I will likely end up following the coin. Or I ‘hiddenly’ dread both options, or would feel either as loss, in which case I will recoil against the choice of the coin (and possibly recoil again against the other option as well, leaving back where I started.)
But I generally use this when I am otherwise indecisive, where further analysis is more trouble than it’s worth. So even when the randomness leads me astray, it doesn’t cost me much.