Parkinson's law of triviality — Tendency to give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Also known as bikeshedding, it explains why an organization may avoid specialized/complex subjects, such as the design of a nuclear reactor, instead focus on something easy to grasp or rewarding to the avg participant, like the design of an adjacent bike shed.
117114 Decision-making and behavioral biases
Often we are faced with situations where our intuition misguides us. Cognitive biases are systematic patterns of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Many of these biases affect belief formation, business and economic decisions, and human behavior in general.