Coin tossing is really more statistics than science, but we use it for making decisions and now there is a app that wants to do it more scientifically. I’m honestly not remotely sure of the science but that’s what the app smart Decisions claims.
You did read that right and I did type it correctly: smart Decisions with a lowercase s.
For 99c US or 69p UK, you get to list choices in a decision and make some criteria. The app calls them criterions: apparently criterion is the correct singular and criteria is the plural but this kinda covers you both ways. You might want to decide what to drink, in which case your criteria might include price, alcoholic or not, and so on. Perhaps location: if you’re in desert, you might take anything going.
The algorithm does some sorting on this and reduces your choices to clearer, more comparable ones – so not New York has more museums than Dulles but rather Dulles is cheaper than NYC – and offers you a decision.
You need to play with it to see if it’s any use to you and I am resistant because of the criterions and the lowercase s. Ridiculous of me, but there you go.