We investigate computability theoretic and descriptive set theoretic contents of various kinds of analytic choice principles by performing a detailed analysis of the Medvedev lattice of
$\Sigma ^1_1$
-closed sets. Among others, we solve an open problem on the Weihrauch degree of the parallelization of the
$\Sigma ^1_1$
-choice principle on the integers. Harrington’s unpublished result on a jump hierarchy along a pseudo-well-ordering plays a key role in solving this problem.