Problem Factors

There are many factors that can make decision-making difficult.

• Element Scope: range of things affected.
• Action Scope: problems requiring more than one action to fix.
• Outcome Scope: .
• Relationship Scope: how things affect one another.
• Time Scope: Now vs. future.
• Unclear Causality. 
• Complex Behaviour.
• Probability.
• Tiny Impacts: 
• Slow Change.
• Novelty. Rare or unprecedented problems.

To Do

• rename 'problem attributes'?
• May need a scope consideration that embraces all people, instances, places, etc. cf. optimisation qv utility function (utilitarianism).
• 'Related engine processes' section is forward links to engine, which has not been described yet. (Same for thinking traps).
• unclear-causality qv, complex-behaviour qv and novelty qv and probability qv are arguably subjective: they may depend on human knowledge of the system, rather than being attributes of the problem alone. But they're not thinking traps (ie, psychology, mistakes). The trap would be to make decisions without taking probability qv etc into account. Cross-refer to thinking-traps qv.