While the search pattern is an important factor of a search strategy, the speed at which the inspection is performed is also essential.
McDonald and Gramopadhye (1998) studied the influences of decision making speed as well as the relative value of making the correct or incorrect decision.
When the speed at which a search pattern is executed increases, the accuracy of the inspection decreases (Koenig et al., 2002).
Drury (1994) describes this phenomenon as a trade-off that occurs when either speed or accuracy increases. This means that speed and accuracy are negatively correlated.
The study conducted by Koenig et al. (2002) looked at how the speed of an inspection was impacted by various complexity levels of the inspection task.