This particular rule was popularized by Joe Soucheray, a radio commentator and host of a well thought-out set of rules for men and women called Garage Logic in St. Paul, but I think Paul Harvey said so too. It’s called the 50-50-90 rule and it goes something like this: Guys, (and this is a male-only rule) if you have a fifty percent chance of doing something right, you will make the wrong decision ninety percent of the time. weather. I’ve also heard it as eighty percent, but that’s the absolute lowest percentage. So how does it work?
Let’s say your better half sends you to the dime store to buy a regular loaf of bread. After his cart overflows (because he rarely goes to a store and leaves alone with what he went to buy), he arrives at the bread section that runs down the aisle. Of course, with so many varieties of bread, you are now in a bigger dilemma than before walking into the store. In the bread aisle, there are white, wheat, 12-grain, 7-grain, whole wheat, honey wheat, cracked wheat, potato bread, bagels, English muffins, sourdough, and a host of others. If you think about it, the choice is really between white and wheat. Save the 12 grains for when your wife is with you at the grocery store. You don’t like wheat, but she does. Since you have others to feed in the family, like your six little munchkins, you need to consider them in the equation as well. You know for sure they won’t eat whole wheat bread, but your wife likes whole wheat bread. What do you do for a living? You can make a case for a white bread, as that is what you and the children will eat. Wheat bread is also a good option because that’s what your wife will eat, so you do the logical thing (no, don’t call her on her cell phone from the store). Splurge and buy both. In fact, since white is cheaper, you get a couple of loaves.
Of course, your wife won’t like that you spent money on both types of bread (and bought two of the ones she didn’t want you to buy in the first place), but she’s not the one trying to be part of the ten. percent doing it well. And as you can see, he didn’t get it right because he chose both.
So he had a 50-50 chance of getting it right, but the odds were clearly against him. You tried, but you made the wrong decision.
Better luck next time.