Marc Andreessen

And this is true, like universally for all form of human behavior.

But for example, if you're studying, let's say mating patterns, right?

Like, you know, who people date and marry.

Like, it's just been well established forever that the thing that they say is their criteria.

I mean, you know, we all see this with our friends, right?

You know, our friends all start out single with a certain criteria list and then they marry somebody like completely different.

And so it's like, okay, you know, who do you believe me or your lying eyes?

Right.

Like, who do you believe?

What do you believe?

What I told you I wanted or what I actually demonstrated that, you know, that I wanted.

And this is basically true for all areas of human behavior.

But this is like fairly, you know, this is a fair, you know, this is this is one of these sort of slightly counterintuitive ideas that you have to kind of have been trained up in it and have seen examples to really understand.

And so what happens is, of course, people that people don't know this or they forget this.

And then what happens is there's there's there's like there's literally just like a poll and somebody does a poll.

And then the poll comes back with, like, results.

And it looks like, you know, in the results, it looks like, oh, if people say that, then that must be the case.

But then you get into this thing, which is like, okay, first of all, you're asking them what they think as opposed to watching their behavior.

And there's this potentially huge delta there.

And then the other thing is everybody in the world of polling will tell you, like, you can basically make a poll say whatever you want.