Perceptions.

A good number of human decisions, which are normally followed by action, is based on perceptions and notions, hardly ever on reflection and data evaluation.

This is a remider of "the naked king" parable so aptly illustrated by the famous story teller. The fable amply illustrates the fallacy of coming to conclusions based on propagated biased notions.

Driven by pressures well inscribed in hidden agendas, rallies at first a small chorus of henchmen, but which, given a good marketing set-up, soon gathers gargantuan proportions. The herd instinct pushes people together. A movement or a focus group, or call it what you like, discovers strength in numbers.

To go back to the parable. All preferred to believe that the king was donning the most luscious vestments adorned with bejewelled fittings and trimmings as becoming of a prosperous reigning monarch.

Only a child saw the naked truth.

He innocently based his unbiased judgment on reality which was embedded on fact, first hand data without any relays, without fear or favour, hands on information, as we may say. Whether audiences feasted their eyes on a body exposing a regal and attractive sight, and therefore the child ruining the spectacle, is not known. Parading the streets of the town stark naked is not a very frequent demonstration, not even in to-day's permissive society.

That is why some decisions, even the most far reaching ones, are often structured on half-truths, on bias, on restictive mental approach and unfairness. Long jumping, vault jumping and high jumping are great experiences. But jumping to conclusions is not a very acceptable proposition.

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