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How willing you are to abandon a bad asset investment is related to at least two things: the size of the investment and when you get the bad news that you made a mistake. If the sunk cost is large you are more likely to resist rational action than if the outlay is small.
If data on your mistake becomes immediately obvious after making a large investment you will do everything in your power to ignore or refute the data. On the other hand if you have gotten some benefit from the investment over some period of time you will be more willing to act prudently and write the investment off.
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