The tyranny of choice study gets thrown around a lot, but when there are familiar options it's less of a problem.
And there's the opposite problem, not enough choices also presents problems. I can't find the study, but notice all the different kinds of spaghetti sauce in the isle at the supermarket. Some people vastly prefer chunks of vegetables, others are very strongly opposed to that kind of sauce. Providing options expanded the market significantly as folks who had traditionally not liked the product at all found a variety that fit their tastes. IMHO, The trick is not removing all choice, or having the maximum number of options possible -- it's allowing just the right number of choices in just the right places. --Mark Ramm On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Psychologists have done a significant amount of research documenting the > "tyranny of choice" and famously served samples of exotic jams "when choice > is demotivating" > (http://www.columbia.edu/~ss957/articles/Choice_is_Demotivating.pdf). At > least for jam, 6 choices is OK, while 30 choices are demotivating. Even the > individuals who were able to choose one of the 30 jams were more likely to > be dissatisfied and unsure whether they had made the right choice. > > So if you have less than 10 years experience and think you should re-write a > trivial dependency such as Linux, Python, OpenSSL, M2Crypto, zope.component, > WSGI, Pyramid, (insert favorite 5 templating languages and 6 forms libraries > here), it might not be because those are unsuitable but because you feel > more competent at coding than at making a choice. > > Is it possible to teach newcomers how to deal with the tyrannical, > overwhelming level of choice presented by every layer of web application > development in Python? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "pylons-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en. > -- Mark Ramm-Christensen email: mark at compoundthinking dot com blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en.
