{"id":1449,"date":"2008-01-23T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/lazy-option-is-best\/"},"modified":"2008-01-23T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T20:07:05","slug":"lazy-option-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2008\/01\/lazy-option-is-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Lazy option is best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always a tough decision when to start a research project. The research question is often obvious for a long time but when should you go for it? Or continue waiting if somebody else is doing all this work and write<!--more--> a clever editorial that gets all attention? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19726404.600-lazy-option-is-best-when-waiting-for-the-bus.html\">New Scientist<\/a> now reports a formal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\/abs\/0801.0297\">study<\/a> on that problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nScott Kominers &#8230; derived a formula for the optimal time that you should wait for a tardy bus at each stop en route before giving up and walking on &#8230; The team found that the solution was surprisingly simple. When both options seem reasonably attractive, the formula advises you to choose the &#8220;lazy&#8221; option: wait at the first stop, no matter how frustrating &#8230; If you do choose to walk, you should make your decision before you start waiting.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will give it a try tomorrow ;-) Unfortunately both options are not always reasonable attractive&#8230;<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always a tough decision when to start a research project. The research question is often obvious for a long time but when should you go for it? Or continue waiting if somebody else is doing all this work and write &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 03.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1526,1525],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","tag-bus-late","tag-new_scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}