Decisions, Decisions!

Ever since it's official birth, Internet has been helping and facilitating people's lives. It has simplified interpersonal communication. It has accumulated, organized and distributed colossal information, changed habit of shopping, travel and offered countless alternative ways and means of conventional duties and activities. Now, for better or for worst, it can apparently even help us to avoid having to think or make decisions!

For those any decision making is a pain or torture, the ones who never seem able to choose an option when presented with more than one, and for all those indecisive of the world, Hunch.com is born, a web site that makes decisions for you. With less than 10 questions it can help with thousands of critical situations like what career to pursuit, which country to move to, including matters less critical like where to have the most romantic dinner ... Their data base has listed decisions on 2,400 subject matters.

Hunch.com functions with a series of algorithms which select questions leading to the most correct and well thought out answers. Or select answers on the base that the system already knows, and the last group is to determine what your level and taste is that will condition the type of result, based on the information you supply. The founder creator of this site is Caterina Fake(!) of Flickr, the web photo base.

It's not a matter of random chance or esoteric doctrine. The web studies and learns the user's personal taste and preference. In each situation, you are given a series of simple but precise questions to reach a logical conclusion. For instance, from a question: "Should I go to the gymnasium?" the web requires some data like 'Are you injured? Do you wish to lose weight? Are you often tired? From the information you give, they will reach a conclusion based on the common sense of the programmers.

Personally, I might play with the on-line Agony Aunt for a few minutes if I have nothing better to do. Any doubts about anything important or serious I will keep to myself, or let my brain cells exercise overtime for a day or two. If I still can't resolve it or reach any decision, I will blame it on destiny! It wouldn't be the first time nor would it be the last.

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