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DFRPG / Re: What does Taken Out mean?
« on: July 28, 2012, 12:02:20 AM »
No, it doesn't. A Joule of heat is a Joule of heat regardless of any outside factors. A lumen of light emission is a lumen of light emission, regardless of outside factors. If a witness doesn't know what a Joule of lumen is, that does not change the amount of heat or light. Nor does precision of instruments change the amount of heat or light, though it will affect the fidelity of measurements made. But there is a physical truth which is absolute. These are objective measures.
Your definition of clarity depends heavily on the capacity of the witnesses to understand it. The same person could give the same communication to different groups without any variation, and his "clarity" measure could easily range from 0% to 100% based solely on the witnesses and their capacity to understand.
I don't care how clearly you explain yourself, you will have 0% clarity on any attempt to explain the basics of folding a towel in half to a group of 1 month old children -- not because you aren't explaining clearly, but because the audience has 0% capacity for understanding the subject matter regardless of the clarity of the explanation. If your scale is no more precise than rating everything it measures as "ranging from 0% to 100%, depending on the witness", then there's no point in the measurement.
Your definition of clarity depends heavily on the capacity of the witnesses to understand it. The same person could give the same communication to different groups without any variation, and his "clarity" measure could easily range from 0% to 100% based solely on the witnesses and their capacity to understand.
I don't care how clearly you explain yourself, you will have 0% clarity on any attempt to explain the basics of folding a towel in half to a group of 1 month old children -- not because you aren't explaining clearly, but because the audience has 0% capacity for understanding the subject matter regardless of the clarity of the explanation. If your scale is no more precise than rating everything it measures as "ranging from 0% to 100%, depending on the witness", then there's no point in the measurement.