Satisfice

This is part of all decision making in a world of imperfect and expensive information. It involves searching for more information to make a better choice until the cost of looking for more information is greater than the expected benefit the information would bring the searcher. Believed to have been coined by Herbert Stein.

See also Premature Optimization.

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