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Re: Comments on the comments :-)

Posted by David Aiken (A) on April 13, 2007 at 14:10:48

In Reply to: Re: Comments on the comments :-) posted by john curl on April 13, 2007 at 12:14:46:

John,

History seems to be full of things that work which either weren't supposed to when they were developed, or which worked despite the fact that the reasons given, though believed at the time, were completely and utterly wrong. Life is full of things that don't work when you try to use them, despite the fact that the science behind them is sound (it really is annoying when things break down ).

Someone once said something like "the lesson of history is that we don't learn the lessons of history". Wanting to assess whether a product actually does something by deciding whether the explanation given for it makes sense or not is something we should have learned not to do, but it is such a tempting approach. It seems to be a lot harder to adopt a more practical 'suck it and see' approach if, in the end, you're going to have to rely on your own senses and your own judgement and make the call not only on whether or not it's worth the price if you're satisfied that it does work, but also on whether or not it actually works at all. We don't seem to mind making a mistake about value and the cost benefit side of things so much as we do about whether or not the thing actually works. Get the value side of things wrong and all we have to live with is being thought a tightwad or a cheapstake. Make a mistake by thinking the thing doesn't work when it does and we're thought of as overly cautious. If we make the mistake of thinking it doesn't work when it does, then we're stupid or gullible, and poorer to boot. That's the mistake we don't like.

Of course, some of us are happy to recognise that occasionally we're all stupid so proving it every now and then isn't a problem :-)

David Aiken

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