 Although often regarded as an inferior decision strategy, specific satisficing strategies for inference have been shown to be ecologically rational, that is in particular decision environments, they can outperform alternative decision strategies.Satisficing also occurs in consensus building when the group looks towards a solution everyone can agree on even if it may not be the best.One popular method for rationalizing satisficing is optimization when "all" costs, including the cost of the optimization calculations themselves and the cost of getting information for use in those calculations, are considered.