Mental models/Hick's Law
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Hick's Law

The time it takes to make a decision increases logarithmically with the number of choices available. Named after psychologists William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman.

In plain language

The more choices you give someone, the longer they take to decide. Every option you add has a cost.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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