Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?

[Gerald]

Three men doing time in Israeli prisons recently appeared before a parole board consisting of a judge, a criminologist and a social worker. The three prisoners had completed at least two-thirds of their sentences, but the parole board granted freedom to only one of them. Guess which one:

Case 1 (heard at 8:50 a.m.): An Arab Israeli serving a 30-month sentence for fraud.

Case 2 (heard at 3:10 p.m.): A Jewish Israeli serving a 16-month sentence for assault.

Case 3 (heard at 4:25 p.m.): An Arab Israeli serving a 30-month sentence for fraud.

There was a pattern to the parole board’s decisions, but it wasn’t related to the men’s ethnic backgrounds, crimes or sentences. It was all about timing, as researchers discovered by analyzing more than 1,100 decisions over the course of a year. Judges, who would hear the prisoners’ appeals and then get advice from the other members of the board, approved parole in about a third of the cases, but the probability of being paroled fluctuated wildly throughout the day. Prisoners who appeared early in the morning received parole about 70 percent of the time, while those who appeared late in the day were paroled less than 10 percent of the time.

To be continued ....

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/ma...me&ref=general


Note: Published: August 17, 2011

[Rockstar]

Just stop offering parole to criminals one less decision to make.

Otherwise I prefer
chicken,
paper clips,
east because I like watching the sunrise
coach because thats all I can afford
and staying together

It's 5PM here, I thought i did pretty good

[Gerald]

Not bad at all,

[MothBalls]

I can relate.

In a previous life, when working in corporate America (in Houston), all I did was make decisions all day long. That was my job as a Director in a Fortune 100 company. I didn't produce anything, reports, etc. Didn't really do any work, just went to meetings and made decisions. Close to the end of the day I was tired as hell, at night totally worn out.

On my time off in one summer, I rebuilt my garage, put a roof on it in the middle of the summer heat, built a rock waterfall for the pool, graded and poured a concrete slab for it (hand mixed all the cement), moved all the materials from the front where it was delivered to the back, carried all the stuff on the roof, did it myself. Point being;

At the end of the day, doing hard physical labor, I was less fatigued from that rather than a day at work sitting on my ass thinking all day.

Note: You really can't appreciate how good a cold beer tastes until you pound in the last nail on your new roof and it's 100+ degrees outside.

[Growler]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

Note: You really can't appreciate how good a cold beer tastes until you pound in the last nail on your new roof and it's 100+ degrees outside.

Amen!

[Betonov]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

At the end of the day, doing hard physical labor, I was less fatigued from that rather than a day at work sitting on my ass thinking all day.

Note: You really can't appreciate how good a cold beer tastes until you pound in the last nail on your new roof and it's 100+ degrees outside.

Here here.

My job was easier when I started, when I was a student, a grunt, a peon. Lift this, hold that. Then it began, I started showing a talent for reading plans and soon it was build this, cut that and now I got promoted to group-leader. A position for which I am neither qualified, educated or payed for that. So now I have a group of two to seven ''grunts'' bombarding me with questions and decisions and not to give time to think it over, plan my moves, calculate the consequences, noooo they shower me with 20 questions and on top of it all, neither of them speaks slovenian, english or german

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Betonov

...neither of them speaks slovenian, english or german

Hmm... try Spanish?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

I can relate.

In a previous life, when working in corporate America (in Houston), all I did was make decisions all day long. That was my job as a Director in a Fortune 100 company. I didn't produce anything, reports, etc. Didn't really do any work, just went to meetings and made decisions. Close to the end of the day I was tired as hell, at night totally worn out.

On my time off in one summer, I rebuilt my garage, put a roof on it in the middle of the summer heat, built a rock waterfall for the pool, graded and poured a concrete slab for it (hand mixed all the cement), moved all the materials from the front where it was delivered to the back, carried all the stuff on the roof, did it myself. Point being;

At the end of the day, doing hard physical labor, I was less fatigued from that rather than a day at work sitting on my ass thinking all day.

Note: You really can't appreciate how good a cold beer tastes until you pound in the last nail on your new roof and it's 100+ degrees outside.

Very true....a feeling I've experienced on a few occasions

[Diopos]

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?

Me, no! But Obama, Sarkozy and Merkel certainly seem to!

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