misoptimize
verbEtymology
From mis- + optimize.
Definitions
To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of…
To optimize badly, emphasizing the wrong criteria or failing to take advantage of potential improvements.
- Inattentive consumers are misoptimizing: they fail to recognize opportunities to save money by choosing products with lower ancillary costs.
- This effect is related to the broader philosophies of libertarian paternalism (Sunstein and Thaler, 2003), which advocate policies that do not infringe on freedom of choice but could improve choices by the subset of people who misoptimize.
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