How does Jonas make decisions?

Jonas Mairhofer decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is high.

What is Jonas suited for as a test persona?

For pretesting content from the perspective of “Paramedic (full-time), Red Cross East Tyrol district branch, Lienz”, Life-World “The Pragmatists · Feasibility & Balance” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

Jonas Mairhofer

Paramedic (full-time), Red Cross East Tyrol district branch, Lienz · Lienz, East Tyrol (Tyrol), Austria

◆ Synthetic persona — not a real human Life-World: The Pragmatists · Feasibility & Balance Decides: rational 26 yrs · Austria

In Tyrol's largest district by area, calls often mean long drives – Jonas Mairhofer knows them well as a paramedic at the Red Cross East Tyrol district branch in Lienz; a path his father, a carpenter, had not pictured for him. Whether he stays in East Tyrol for good or someday moves to where the distances are shorter and the duty rosters easier to fill is a question he keeps putting off.

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Tech affinity

High for anything with a clear purpose on a call – monitor, defibrillator, the digital run report, which he operates faster than some colleagues with twice his years of service. Pragmatic about private consumer tech, no interest in every new device as long as the old one does what it should – the exception is the workshop, where he will comb through a forum abroad for spare parts for the old moped.

Defining bias

One especially severe case at a particular spot – a fall in the Galitzenklamm gorge, an accident at the bike park – makes him rate that spot as riskier for weeks than other, statistically similarly risky places in the district, simply because the image is still fresh.

How he decides

On calls fast, structured, by the book – training beats gut feeling, unless the gut clearly disagrees, then he asks. With private purchases quick and pragmatic, without much deliberation; if a younger colleague signals he wants to shoulder a difficult call alone, though, he becomes strikingly thorough and would rather ask one time too many than overwhelm anyone.

Personality · Big Five (OCEAN)

What makes Jonas tick

Openness

45 · medium

Conscientiousness

80 · high

Extraversion

42 · medium

Agreeableness

63 · medium

Neuroticism

30 · low

Cognitive Biases

The thinking patterns behind the judgments

Availability heuristic after extreme cases medium

Habituation bias on routine calls medium

Hindsight bias after a bad outcome high

Values

Reliability within the team
Precision
Fairness
Independence
Sober-mindedness

Fears

A call ends fatally despite every step done right
At Sunday lunch in Sillian, his father asks about the car and the apartment but, as almost always, says not a word about the job

Motivations

A difficult mountain operation together with the East Tyrol mountain rescue ends well
The public health officer's follow-up exam for the C1 again comes out in his favor, as in the rounds before
A quiet night shift with a round of Schnapsen at the Lienz station

Common questions

Jonas at a glance

How does Jonas make decisions?: Jonas Mairhofer decides rationally, based on numbers and facts. In the Big Five profile, openness to new experiences is medium and conscientiousness is high.
What does Jonas react critically to?: Above all when something touches Jonas’s core concerns: “A call ends fatally despite every step done right” and “At Sunday lunch in Sillian, his father asks about the car and the apartment but, as almost always, says not a word about the job.” The bias that shapes Jonas’s judgment most is “Availability heuristic after extreme cases.”
What is Jonas suited for as a test persona?: For pretesting content from the perspective of “Paramedic (full-time), Red Cross East Tyrol district branch, Lienz”, Life-World “The Pragmatists · Feasibility & Balance” — before real budget goes into marketing or research.

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Convincing

Reliability within the team · Precision · Fairness

Off-putting

A call ends fatally despite every step done right · At Sunday lunch in Sillian, his father asks about the car and the apartment but, as almost always, says not a word about the job

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Reservations & concerns

A call ends fatally despite every step done right; At Sunday lunch in Sillian, his father asks about the car and the apartment but, as almost always, says not a word about the job.

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How Jonas decides

Decides rationally, based on numbers and facts.

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Strongest cognitive bias

Availability heuristic after extreme cases — shapes the judgment.

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