I try 'til I succeed

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Nereidalbel

Why would searching multiple times give a penalty for spending more time on it? Double-checking and triple-checking make you BETTER at spotting where you went wrong, not increasingly worse.

IME IRL trying to search quickly (hoping to find the thing any second now), again and again and again, is less likely to produces a success than searching slowly and deliberately (with an expectation to spend quite a bit more of time on a full cycle).