Eine internationale Studienbefragung von Menschen in einem Dutzend Ländern ergab, dass Menschen auf der ganzen Welt, wenn es darum geht, komplexe Entscheidungen zu treffen

>Researchers from the University of Waterloo led the new study that surveyed more than 3,500 people from megacities to small Indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest to learn how they make decisions. This work is the broadest test of decision-style preferences across cultures to date.
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>The researchers say understanding that even in interdependent societies most people prefer to go with the decision made by themselves irrespective of what others say can help clarify cross-cultural misunderstandings and show that we all appear to be juggling similar internal debates.
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> The study upends the belief that westerners work things out themselves while the rest of the world leans on others. In fact, intuition and self-reflection beat out advice from friends or crowdsourcing in all countries studied. The amount of that preference varied, depending on the level at which a culture values independence or interdependence.

[Decision-making preferences for intuition, deliberation, friends or crowds in independent and interdependent societies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences](https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2025.1355)

>with adults choosing among four decision strategies—personal intuition, private deliberation, friends’ advice or crowd wisdom—

I’m not sure why they wouldn’t have included a few varieties of experts and authority figures, not just your friends and crowds.

I don’t trust friends or crowds for generic, practical advice because they’ve always been unreliable just in terms of the accuracy of the information they give me, though I might trust a specific friend that I know is familiar with a specific topic.

They only had four choices:

>Participants read each scenario and then were told that there are ‘several ways this person could handle the situation’, then prompted to evaluate four distinct strategies, all presented on the same screen to highlight the contrast between them. Two strategies chiefly relied on one’s own inner mental processes (**gut feeling or deliberation**). The other two strategies involved advice from other people (**friends or ‘wisdom of crowds’**).

With those choices, deliberation sounds the best, even if you did seek advice from friends or crowds.

And it makes more sense when looking at half the choices.

>Half of the scenarios involved a choice between two attractive options such as deciding between **buying an orchard or a herd of animals** (in José’s scenario above), **choosing a university to pursue one’s degree, or selecting a travel destination**.

Often, intuition was second most popular. This makes sense when looking at the other half of questions.

>The other half of the scenarios involved a dilemma between self-interest and others’ interests with ambiguous outcomes, **such as deciding whether to help a neighbour at the expense of personal work deadlines** (in Marcos’s scenario above) **or balancing personal study time with assisting a struggling friend**.