Practice question · Multiple choice
A student has made thirty thumbnails and cannot choose between them, so she begins improving the three she likes and abandons the rest the same afternoon. Why does that ordering damage both operations?
Hints
- Ask what happens to the other twenty-seven once effort has gone into three.
- The two jobs are being done at the same time and in the wrong order.
Show the answer
B. Judging halts search early; refining before selection commits effort to uncompared options.
Why
Once effort has gone into three, the comparison is no longer between thirty options but between three developed ones and twenty-seven sketches, and the sunk effort decides it. Separating the two operations in time is what keeps the comparison honest. Thirty is a reasonable number and liking is a perfectly good starting criterion.
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