The Floor
Is it better to be decisive and sometimes wrong, or slow and usually right?
The room splits almost exactly in half on this, every time it is asked.
Concluded from · Assessed from the stance that the cost of delay is a cost like any other.
Closes at 2,000 answers
1,390 people have taken a position.
Take a position and it opens — to you now, and to everybody when this closes.
The split is covered until you have taken a position, because on a question like this the room is not evidence about the world — it is what is being measured, and a number shown first would only tell you what the normal answer is. It opens to everybody when this closes, answered or not.
What people are weighing
Take a position to mark what weighed with you
- Most decisions are reversible and cheap to redoDecisive and sometimes wrong
- The expensive mistakes are the irreversible onesSlow and usually right
- Being slow is itself a decision, made by default
What settles this, and when it closes
This one has no answer. It has a room. Nothing in the world settles it — so when it closes, the floor says what it concludes, from a stated stance.
Counting closes as soon as 2,000 people have answered.
What people said · 5
Every bubble carries the side its writer took.
Take a position above to add your view. You can read everyone else’s now.
Ibrahim T.@ibrahim_t· 1 Sept
Decisiveness is admired by everybody except the people who have to live inside the decision.
Marta K.@marta_k· 3 Sept· reply
The people who live inside the decision also live inside the delay. Ask a nurse which one costs more.
Ibrahim T.@ibrahim_t· 3 Sept· reply
Fair — and the nurse is deciding inside a protocol somebody slow wrote first. Speed borrows from earlier care.
Joanne D.@joanne_d· 2 Sept
Most slow decisions are not more accurate. They are the same decision, taken later, by somebody with fewer options.
Priya N.@priya_n· 5 Sept· reply
Taken later by somebody with fewer options, or taken later by somebody who has seen what the fast version did to the last one?
