How do you know when your perceptions are accurate and right?
Hypothetical:
5 people and 1 supervisor (for a total of 6 people) are involved in a project to create something - a widget. At the end of one stage in the project, 2 of the participants have the perception that the project leader is acting unfairly and giving some voices more weight than other voices (their voices). The other 3 participants feel that the project is being handled fairly and equitably.
How do any of the parties know their perception or feeling is right?
More information:
The supervisor asks for everyone's opinion and gives each party equal time to talk. He never criticizes anyone, but instead encourages people to talk. However, the resulting widget has more taken from the three participants than from the 2 complaining participants.
Would that sway your opinion as to whose perception is right/accurate?
Different facts:
The supervisor controls who talks when and for how long. He limits some participants from talking while giving other participants free rein to talk as much as they want. The 2 participants who feel the project is unfairly done were the people who had limited speaking time. The widget still takes more from the three participants than from the 2 participants.
If these different facts were given, would you change your mind?
Or do you take the zen position, that everyone's perceptions are right and accurate?
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It just seems difficult to know which perceptions are right and which are biased because of your outlook/history/current situation. And it becomes more difficult to know which perceptions are valid when, in a group situation, most of the group disagrees with your perception.
Your comments are appreciated.
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2 comments:
Every ones perceptions are correct for themselves. Its like feelings, you can't tell some one their feelings are wrong (as much as they try to at work), its how they feels. How some one perceives something is how they see it, how they observe it so it cannot be incorrect. Even if their views are off, its their perception.
However if your asking who is seeing the situation as it actually is... I think that's sort of like Schrodinger Cat
I agree with Crystal. A couple students in my class were complaining about a test question they got wrong in a different class. The question started with the phrase "In your opinion" and they were arguing that they can not be counted wrong since they were being asked for their opinion/perception, not actual facts.
An outsider may judge someone's perceptions as more or less accurate, but the possessor of the perception will always feel accurate. If that makes any sense.
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