— …the “bike shed effect” (also known as...

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…the “bike shed effect” (also known as Parkin­son’s Law of Triv­i­al­i­ty) which states that, “the time spent on any item of the agen­da will be in inverse pro­por­tion to the sum involved.”

In other words, if you try to build a sim­ple thing such as a pub­lic bike shed, there will be end­less town hall dis­cus­sions where­in peo­ple argue over triv­ial details such as the color of the door. But if you want to build a nuclear power plant — a project so vast and com­pli­cat­ed that most peo­ple can’t under­stand it — peo­ple will defer to expert opin­ion.

http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/03/data-science-deep-data-information-paradox.html

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