Blaming the Strawless Brickmaker: Constraint Neglect in Judging Decision Quality

Xilin Li, Christopher K. Hsee

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People often judge the quality of selection decisions made by others: The CEO of a firm may judge the quality of hiring decisions made by the firm's HR personnel; the readers of a journal may judge the quality of manuscript-acceptance decisions by the journal's editor. To accurately judge others' selection decision quality, evaluators should consider not only the outcome of the selection decisions but also the constraints of the decision-maker. For example, to judge the quality of the hiring decisions made by the HR personnel, the CEO should consider not only how many high-quality (vs. low-quality) candidates the HR personnel hired, but also how many high-quality (vs. low-quality) candidates applied, and how many candidates the HR personnel needed to hire. We theorize that evaluators tend to overlook these constraints, and, consequently, judge decision-makers who faced greater constraints as having made worse decisions than decisions-makers who faced lesser constraints, even if the former's decisions were actually as good as or better than the latter's. We refer to this phenomenon as Blaming the Strawless Brickmaker (from the saying "making bricks without straw"). Eight studies, employing mixed methods, demonstrate the Blaming-the-Strawless-Brickmaker effect, examine its underlying mechanism, and suggest ways to improve the quality of judged selection decision quality.
源语言英语
文章编号e70006
页数19
期刊Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
38
1
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 1月 2025

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Li, X., & Hsee, C. K. (2025). Blaming the Strawless Brickmaker: Constraint Neglect in Judging Decision Quality. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 38(1), 文章 e70006. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70006