# I thought this was going to turn into a full rejection of the
representativeness heuristic, and was…

Split-and-commit is probably even more generally applicable — most situations
don’t actually fit significantly better into whatever box…

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I thought this was going to turn into a full rejection of the
representativeness heuristic, and was relieved to find that your alternative
in the split-and-commit format was quite reasonable.

Split-and-commit is probably even more generally applicable — most situations
don’t actually fit significantly better into whatever box System I sticks them
in than in other boxes (and which box System I chooses is largely priming-
based — I rank things as threats or annoyances more often if I’m hungry or
overcaffeinated or have recently thought about budgeting, for instance), and
so taking the time to step back and enumerate all likely possibilities and
come up with appropriate responses to each is a good idea.

(My heuristic here: there are never only two sides, so if you only see two
sides, you haven’t looked yet.)

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [August 6,
2018](https://medium.com/p/dba5d6ebde9c).

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into-a-full-rejection-of-the-representativeness-heuristic-and-was-
dba5d6ebde9c)

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