How to avoid sunk cost fallacy and save your business money

Kurtis Hanni
5 min readOct 28, 2022
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In the 1980s, 2 scientists put together a questionnaire to examine how we were influenced by sunk cost fallacy.

They asked participants to imagine they’d spent money on 2 different ski trips that happened to be on the same weekend. They’d spent $100 to go to Michigan and $50 to go to Wisconsin.

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Kurtis Hanni

I am a CFO & podcast host who likes to write about habits, systems, and mental frameworks. kurtishanni.com