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A decision is a final product of a specific mental/cognitive process by an individual or group, which is called decision making, or in more detail, Inactive decision making, Reactive decision making, and Proactive decision making. Therefore it is a subjective concept. It is a mental object and can be an opinion, a rule or a task for execution/application.
More precisely speaking, a mental object D is a decision if obtained by a conscious choice of only one opinion or one action (from a known set called alternatives), and it is designated for an application.
Decisions, at times, are influenced by factors that have almost nothing to do with surrounding reality or material facts. For example superstition may play a significant role in decision making, and so are other beliefs such as numerology, astrology, and many other forms of similar unscientific and perhaps even spiritual standards. Decisions can also be made by AI computer programs and autonomous robots. That what essentially influence a decision is the set of alternatives available for a decision-maker and choice criteria applied. These are often addressed using decision support systems
In different human activity domains, decision has many local meanings, for example,
in law,
a decision is the outcome of a legal case
a per curiam decision by a court with multiple judges
a landmark decision is the outcome of a case which sets a legal precedent
a type of European Union legislation
in statistics and economics, the attempt to make an optimal decision is called decision theory
in boxing, a result arrived at by the judges
decision is a statistical credit earned by a baseball pitcher.
in professional wrestling, a decision is a means by which a wrestler scores a point against his opponent.
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Specially important decisions are those which have normative long-term or order/task character, and intend to influence different human communities, for example, political decisions.
Many decisions can be connected in decision trees.
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