Do too many facts confuse the issue/s?

Question

My accountant, considering business proposals at Board Meetings, used to declare "Let's not confuse the issue with the facts - what do you want to do Boss?" So we did. And won far more than we lost. Climate Change would threaten less with a similar strategy, exercised earlier, I think?

Answer 1

Climate change would threaten less if it were real. The problem climate change has with "too many facts" is that many of the facts prove it wrong.

But ignoring facts is worse than having too many. You can never be too informed. You can be misled, but you can't be over-knowledgeable.

Answer 2

I think too many misintepreted facts as well as particular confounding variables (i.e., people) confuse issues. Issues are typically problems or that which needs to be dealt with in some shape or form. Global warming IS an issue that requires attention.

What surrounds this is how to most efficaciously approach the issue. In the media, too many people who are not experts but have some type of societal power attached to their positions erroneously interpret empirically demonstrated findings of research (e.g., reporters or politicians). The public and non-experts run with which suits their needs, is most amenable to their understanding, fits some type of popular paradigm; and other times, we just fail to re-examine what we "believe" or what we are told. These confounds of limitation, perspective, and inclination confuse the already misinterpreted facts that as such will appear contradictory. So, the issue, which is still an issue that requires action gets mangled to the right and to the left of a distribution of "facts".

Experts need to identify, communicate, and decide on which facts should and do contribute to the issue. NOT those who are not experts in the particular field. NOT those who hold the most power in society. I feel the problem with the issue of climate change has mostly to do with too many but also misinterpreted errors in communication and consquent action. Those who have the least power but are most knowledgeable about the issue are not able to communicate and disseminate the most pertinent facts regarding climate change....sadly, to the detriment of swift, efficacious action.

Answer 3

I understand your accountants strategy - but it is based entirely on too many facts that are not relevant to the problem at hand.
All of the facts that effect the possible outcome of a decision should be presented - it only gets confusing when too many of the facts simply have no baring on the outcome, but they are introduced anyway - sometimes by opponents just to purposely muddle and delay an inevitable decision which they disagree with.

Answer 4

Too many facts definately confuse liberals.