| 单词 | sunk cost fallacy |
| 释义 | sunk cost fallacy noun[S] ECONOMICS,MANAGEMENTukustheideathat acompanyororganizationis morelikelytocontinuewith aprojectif they have alreadyinvesteda lot ofmoney,time, oreffortin it,evenwhencontinuingis not thebestthing to do: Economists wouldpointout that thesunkcostfallacyisirrational, and could bedescribedas "throwinggoodmoneyafterbad". See also Concorde fallacy Examplesofsunk cost fallacysunk cost fallacy Economic experiments have shown that thesunkcostfallacyand loss aversion are common; hence economic rationalityas assumed by much of economicsis limited. From Wikipedia  This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is sometimes referred to as the "sunkcostfallacy". From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It may also be used as shorthand for an error in analysis due to thesunkcostfallacy, irrational decision-making or, most simply, as irrelevant data. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sunk cost dilemma with its sequence of good decisions should not be confused with thesunkcostfallacy, where a misconception of sunk costs can lead to bad decisions. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It has also been found to correlate with measures of mental heuristics, such as the gambler's fallacy, understanding of regression to the mean, thesunkcostfallacy, and others. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The "sunkcostfallacy" is thought to be the product of a "waste not" or "persevere" rule. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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