Muhammadsääntö
Muhammadsääntö (Finnish for "Muhammad's rule") is a fictional decision principle used in some Finnish-language educational discussions to illustrate balance-based heuristics in decision making. It is presented as a simple rule of thumb for choosing between competing options by attempting to equalize marginal benefits and marginal costs, up to a fixed threshold. The term is commonly used in classroom materials and thought experiments rather than as a formal theorem.
Origins and usage: The rule is not attributed to a real researcher; it is named for pedagogical
Formal idea: In typical classroom formulations, Muhammadsääntö states that an action is preferred when the ratio
Applications and interpretation: Used to illustrate equimarginal analysis and threshold-based decision making. It demonstrates how fixed
Criticism: Because Muhammadsääntö is a teaching device, it may oversimplify real decision problems, ignore distributional effects,