[ti]happy[/ti]How many decisions in 1 day? Unscientific social experiment.

[imagineer]

May 13, 2016 6:53:34 GMT -6 Matt said:

We all make decisions constantly, everything you do is a decisions so interestingly I thought it would have been more than that.

Cool experiment anyway

I thought the same.
But then again, if you have routines and maybe eat the same foods on the same days and that sort of thing then I suppose there would be a lot fewer decisions to actually make.

And thanks, I am glad you like this idea

[Matt]

I should try it but that would be a very hard Thing to count.

[imagineer]

Yeah,especially if you are at work. You can’t stop to mark a note pad every few minutes when you need to be working.

[Matt]

May 13, 2016 11:51:45 GMT -6 imagineer said:

Yeah,especially if you are at work. You can’t stop to mark a note pad every few minutes when you need to be working.

Exactly!

[Vincent Van Ghoul]

I've yet to successfully complete a day with a full count of decisions.

But the more scientific, or philosophical you get about the idea, the more interesting it gets.

Does a breath count? Blinking your eyes? Where you look?

A single game of chess could exponentially increase you decision count.

[imagineer]

^^^Exactly.

But I meant conscious decisions, not involuntary ones like breathing or blinking that your body does automatically.
However, if you intentionally hold your breath that would be a decision; when to hold it and how long for, etc.

I am not the only one to have wondered how many decisions the average person makes per day.
I looked it up online and there are quite a few topics and articles about this.

Lol, I must have done something very wrong because this article recons that the average adult makes 35,000 decisions each day: reitmeier.blogspot.co.uk/2006/04/how-many-decisions-do-you-make-each.html

According to the speaker and several authors that she quoted, the average adult in the USA today makes about 35,000 decisions each day. Most of them rather simple ones. Where will I sit, what will I have to eat at each feeding, how much, am I thirsty, should I call to let them know I'm late. Along with driving a car and what lane to be in, looking for other drivers, etc. HOWEVER kids who are in residential treatment programs make about 3,000 decisions a day.