Dealing with uncertainty – results from a survey about important decisions people are facing in 2015

Last week, me and Tommi Pajala asked you to respond to a survey. We collected, in total, 22 serious decision problems that people are facing in 2015. Here is Tommi's analysis of the same results.

The main finding is: Career choices are important and they are challenging due to trade-offs and uncertainties. See Figure 1 for a distribution of the decisions by category. The decisions are listed in Figure 2.

Besides uncertainty in consequences, five other aspects that were found challenging are uncertainty in preferences, timing, clarifying objectives and specifying alternatives. In this post you find more about my thoughts on these and what to do about them.


Figure 1: Distribution of the decisions in categories.
Categorization based on my judgment.