Explore Your Decision Biases: Well-Traveled Road Effect

This quiz is designed to help you understand whether you may be influenced by the Well-Traveled Road Effect, a cognitive bias where familiar routes or choices are wrongly perceived as faster or better. Answer the following scenarios to see if you have a tendency towards this bias.

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You're planning your daily commute and notice there's a new road parallel to your usual route that promises faster travel, according to the GPS. How do you proceed?

Stick to your usual path, as it's familiar and you believe it's the quickest in practice.

Try the new road, but only after researching multiple sources confirming its efficiency.

Eagerly try the new road because you trust the technology to be accurate.

Rotate between the routes based on how you feel each morning.