Decision Making Sites

A number of new sites have launched recently to help people make decisions.

LetSimonDecide is geared toward young adults to aid life goal setting and decision making skills. There are a number of personality "quizzes" to help make decisions and goals.

Microsoft launched Bing, a search engine designed to take a bite out of Google's dominance. Microsoft argues that Bing provides a richer, easier, and more organized search experience. Bing has four verticals: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition, and finding a local business.

Hunch, from one of the founders of Flickr, is a decision tree application that has a collaborative social media aspect. An iPhone app will be coming soon. ReadWriteWeb looked at some of the data from Hunch and found some interesting correlations:

People who say they eat fresh fruit daily are most likely to...

* eat breakfast during the week r = 0.229
* spend most of their money on other people r = 0.188
* consider themselves feminists r = 0.181
* not homeschool their children r = 0.172
* use four or more ring tones on their cellphones r = 0.164

People who could not stack their collection of books up higher than their TV are most likely to....

* not be in the middle of reading a book right now r = 0.315
* never buy local produce at a farmers' market r = 0.226
* not consider themselves feminists r = 0.209
* believe in the death penalty r = 0.189
* have never attended a political protest, march or rally r = 0.181

People who were the oldest children in their families are most likely to...

* prefer to have ten to 20 acquaintances than just a few good friends r = 0.278
* have ten or more browser tabs usually open at once r = 0.227
* believe in a "less well known religion" r = 0.180
* believe prostitution should be legal r = 0.159
* currently be in the middle of a book r = 0.138

Middle Children are most likely to...

* not have a cellphone r = 0.259
* have never had their hearts broken r = 0.205
* always wear a bike helmet r = 0.172
* say Ringo Starr was their favorite Beatle r = 0.131

Youngest Children are most likely to...

* prefer having one or two close friends, over a large number of acquaintances r = 0.210
* say that if they were one of the seven deadly sins, they would be Envy r = 0.175
* not currently be in the middle of a book r = 0.137