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Dreadful Decisions
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Dreadful Decisions

By Lauren Spohn ’20. Lauren is a junior in Currier concentrating in English.

Now that we’re privileged with the chance to choose, we’re paranoid about making the wrong decision. The more options we have, the higher the opportunity cost of choosing one option. Call it the paradox of choice, existential FOMO, the bigger utility loss incurred when I choose between a Snickers Bar and a Twix than when I choose between a Twix and nothing.

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