{"id":15953,"date":"2012-06-18T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15953"},"modified":"2012-06-18T16:25:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:25:06","slug":"confirmation-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15953","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation Biased"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the gMail spam folder, one can either:<\/p>\n

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  1. Click to select all visible messages, then click delete.\n
  2. Click \"delete all Spam\", then click \"OK\" when the full-window confirmation message jumps up.\n<\/ol>\n

    Same number of clicks, in either case - assuming fewer than 50 messages, otherwise, the first method only deletes the first 50. No real difference in mouse movement or clicking technique required.<\/p>\n

    And yet, I much prefer the first method. The first method simply does what I want. The second method's full-window confirmation thing feels so panicky and intrusive. CONFIRM THIS! ARE YOU SURE! EEEK! AAHH!<\/blink> And it just turns me off, knowing I'll have to repeat myself. <\/p>\n

    Delete All. Are you sure? YES, DELETE ALL!<\/p>\n

    I know going into it that it's going to question me.<\/p>\n

    Select All, Delete. That feels much better. It just does what I want.<\/p>\n

    But, same amount of work (two clicks), in either case.<\/p>\n

    Anybody else feel this way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the gMail spam folder, one can either: Click to select all visible messages, then click delete. Click \"delete all Spam\", then click \"OK\" when the full-window confirmation message jumps up. Same number of clicks, in either case - assuming fewer than 50 messages, otherwise, the first method only deletes the first 50. No real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}