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Re:Why Won't You Answer My Question? by clusmore on Friday April 28, 2017 @05:25AM (#14218019)
See also, the XY problem. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-x...
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Re:Why Won't You Answer My Question? by InclinedPlane on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:37PM (#14224057)
Ah, it has a name, nice.

Also, this is very, very closely related to "satisficing", which is worth understanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

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