Called suboptimization, this is a trade-off that increases the advantages to one unit or function but decreases the advantages to another unit or function.
I'm sure house pets like cats and dogs maybe they would like to go out sometimes but they have a nice comfortable life inside the house, safe away from harm, things like that so it's a trade off.
The gender gap on this question is even wider among working adults in their 30s and 40s, when many women face the trade-offs that go with work and motherhood.
He become such an expert on the anatomy of animals that he was granted first refusal on any animal that died at the London Zoological Gardens, and these he would invariably have delivered to his house for examination.
Instead of considering the issue as a yes-or-no vote on recycling, researchers treated it as a comparison between different options, making behavioral trade-offs visible.