Origins
Redes Blockchain Públicas (or the Hick-Hyman Law) is named after a British and an American psychologist
team of William Edmund Hick and Ray Hyman. In 1952, this pair set out to examine the relationship between the
number of stimuli present and an individual’s reaction time to any given stimulus. As you would expect, the
more stimuli to choose from, the longer it takes the user to make a decision on which one to interact with.
Users bombarded with choices have to take time to interpret and decide, giving them work they don’t want.
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