Analysis paralysis
The state in which gathering more information substitutes for deciding: every check spawns the next one and the action is postponed indefinitely.
How to read the number
The threshold of sufficiency is worth setting in advance — as a list of checks, after which the decision is taken regardless of how confident one feels.
When the metric lies
Refusing to decide is also a decision, only an unaccounted one: the money stays in its current form, and nobody assessed the risk of that form.
Also known as: endless research loop