Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The bicycle-shed effect (also known as Parkinson’s law of triviality or bikeshedding) is a belief that humans assign disproportionate weight to trivial issues, thus devoting excessive resources (e.g., time, energy, money, etc.) to more insignificant issues to the detriment of the significant[1]. Humans are believed to prefer to focus on simple and comprehendible subjects (e.g., which color to paint the company Bike-Shed) at the expense of far more significant, yet often complex quandaries (e.g., determining the location of the nuclear power plant)[1],[2].
Author: Christine Perakslis
Institution: Arizona State University
Language: English
Subfield: General Decision Sciences
Field: Decision Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4323352156