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The Effect Of Decisionary On A Fully Functioning Program

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INTRODUCTION Decisionary is a tool designed to resolve indecision. It gets information from the users and outputs a decision analysis report and a cognitive bias checklist based on the given information. The scope of this project is intended to be a proof of concept rather than a fully-functioning program. In view of this, we have a mock-up program with three heuristics, two decision tree strategies, and a function to identify potential biases. Rather than simply providing a suggestion to the user as most other decision-making tools do, Decisionary approaches the problem in an explorative manner, reframing the problem and helping the user break the mental deadlock. WHAT IS THE TOOL The overall framework of Decisionary is a concretized form of the natural flow of decision making. Accordingly, it is assumed that users have adequate information on their decision. The user describes the decision to be made, inputs needed information and then receives the decision analysis report, along with a list of cognitive biases that could influence the final decision. In the case of low-stake decisions however, the user can go straight to randomizer to help pick a random option. For the first route, no matter which heuristics are suggested to users, they will be asked to go through a checklist of facts that will help identify cognitive biases which might be involved in the user’s decision. The program will output a decision report including suggestions framed under the various

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