RE: Belief without Verification or Certainty
May 7, 2022 at 5:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 7, 2022 at 5:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I think there's enough room in there to leverage at least one preexisting fact. That they can't shoot us all. Your faith, as it were, in the plan..being a fairly simple issue of counting heads.
In the end, that sort of inbuilt futility is exactly how we handled train robberies. By making it as inconvenient as possible, for the smallest payout we could work. They weren't going to get through all of it, and if or when they did..was it worth it? It was handled by the numbers.
I think you'd find alot of preliminary faith before established fact in extension work, particular in alt ag (though they'd scream bloody murder if they heard me saying as much - bad for funding, bad for perception). Alot of people trying to be the first point of data. The demonstration site. The numbers tell them that they're wrong from the floor up and should do (whatever it is) the conventional way. They often have little to no experience with anything else - and they bet big. Most of them fail and most of thdecisions in what methodology to use are often aligned with a vision of their own future life. That second thing being more important, in many cases, than whether the numbers balance out.
I tell people all the time. If I couldn't do this for a living, I'd pay somebody to let me do it. It's a huge trustbuilder.
In the end, that sort of inbuilt futility is exactly how we handled train robberies. By making it as inconvenient as possible, for the smallest payout we could work. They weren't going to get through all of it, and if or when they did..was it worth it? It was handled by the numbers.
I think you'd find alot of preliminary faith before established fact in extension work, particular in alt ag (though they'd scream bloody murder if they heard me saying as much - bad for funding, bad for perception). Alot of people trying to be the first point of data. The demonstration site. The numbers tell them that they're wrong from the floor up and should do (whatever it is) the conventional way. They often have little to no experience with anything else - and they bet big. Most of them fail and most of thdecisions in what methodology to use are often aligned with a vision of their own future life. That second thing being more important, in many cases, than whether the numbers balance out.
I tell people all the time. If I couldn't do this for a living, I'd pay somebody to let me do it. It's a huge trustbuilder.
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