[belsarius]

Originally Posted by New Era

Uh huh. Wisdom is "the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, and good judgment." You can't display wisdom when you are bogged down in analyzing details. Wisdom is recognizing when you have done enough analysis to make an informed decision. This is why there are analysts, and then there are decision makers. Analysts rarely make good decision makers because they get too bogged down in the data to recognize when a decision point has been reached.

This is the problem with the Gulutzan argument. Some are bogged down in the data that is telling them things aren't that bad. The reality is we have reached a decision point, and the data is only half the story. Results are the other half of the story, and the results should be dictating the outcome.

So you are wise because you rely on only half the story to make the decision, but others are unwise because they rely on the other half and make a different decision?

That's like saying you know all the data says that climate change is happening but instead rely on the fact that it is cold out right now so therefore we need more global warming. The trend doesn't matter because of the results happening right now.