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Story: The dangers of choice

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Posted by: rat man (Friday 14 July 2006, 3:41 PM)

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There is a classic experiment where hungry gerbils are put in a cage with more and more sunflower seeds. Up to a point the number of seeds they eat in ten minutes rises as more seeds are available. However, there comes a point where the number of choices of seed to go to confuses them and they begin to eat less even though there are more seeds.

I guess this is the IT/human version of this!

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