Hick's law has a logarithmic form because people subdivide the total collection of choices into categories, eliminating about half of the remaining choices at each step, rather than considering each and every choice one-by-one, which would require linear time.
Hicks lov har en logaritmisk form, fordi folk underinddeler den totale samling af valg i kategorier, hvilket eliminerer omkring halvdelen af de resterende valg på hvert trin i stedet for at overveje hvert eneste valg ét efter ét, der ellers ville have givet en lineær graf.