Grass
The grass always seems greener yes, but sometimes the grass is actually greener. What do we do with this information? How about we sample as much grass as possible (in an appropriately shallow way) to really find out (to a certain degree of confidence) which grass is the greenest?
This sounds ok in theory, but in practice there are a few things that happen that complicate this exercise:
- it’s hard to remember exactly how green the grass we sampled was or at least we lack a persistent and quantitative measure of greenness to compare between different grasses
- the grass that I sampled last year grows, its greenness changes over time, it’s a dynamic quantity. How do I know that the dry and scratchy dead grass that I sampled a little last year isn’t now lush and fertile (as it now seems from my new vantage point)?
- we ourselves may have drifted in our fundamental perception of grass greenness
I think the only way we can improve at these things is to improve our first hand intuition of grass greenness, how well its distant appearance maps to reality as well as an introspective understanding of how our perceptions might have changed. This will only come with first hand experience (and perhaps partly through some second hand experience of those whom we trust have a similar view of grass greenness).
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