We will likely all have had experience of false compromises, with various resulting outcomes. Learning to manage this fallacy may help you to avoid unnecessarily meeting in the middle.

• Consider if consensus is needed.
• Evaluate the strength of evidence.
• Be open to extreme decisions.

A false compromise occurs when a resolution cannot be found between two opposing views, and so the middle ground is accepted as the “best of both worlds” instead.

If you know that the sky is blue, but someone else argues that it is yellow, a compromise might see you meeting in the middle to...