ABSTRACT
The only time we have to make decisions is when we do not know something about the situation. Consider the scenario in which your spouse asks you to go to the store. You leave the house and arrive at the proverbial fork in the road. You look down the right fork and see no store. You look down the left fork and you see the store. In this case, I submit that there is no decision to be made — the store is on the left fork and that is where you will go. However, if you reach the fork in the road and do not see a store down either fork, then a decision has to be made. Even if you decide to stay where you are or go back home, a decision still has to be made as to what to do. A decision has to be made because you do not know something. That is, you are uncertain about something related to the problem.
