Choosing the wrong choice seems to be very common. In the story In Cold Blood, Perry seems to regret his life-changing decision of assisting Dick in the killing of the Clutter Family after some time. In Dan Gilbert's forum, he brings up an equation made by Daniel Bernoulli about the art of making decisions. The benefits of the decision we make is determined by the odds of gaining something from it, and the value of the benefits we get. Perry may have seen it as a good plan, to take the Clutter's money. He may have seen many people in the newspaper or knew people that got away with robbery. However, if that is the case, he only thought of the benefit of the decision, and not of the odds of them having to kill anyone or getting caught. That goes along with the reason we make bad decisions as well. We think of the experiences we have seen in the news or have heard about, with robbers and murderers possibly getting away with the crime, but we don't hear about the criminals who have been caught. That is because it is such a normal thing that it eventually becomes uninteresting and never makes it to the news. Perry may have been making a choice based on the benefits he envisioned from murdering the Clutters, but he failed to acknowledge the odds, and they certainly outnumbered his chances.
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