Please Don’t Let
Me Be Misunderstood
Well if I get edgy, I want you to know
I never mean to take it out on you
Life has its problems, I get more than my share
But there's one thing that I would never do
‘Cause I love you
Oh, I'm just a soul whose intentions are good
Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood
Intentions matter more than results!
Results are random. Intentions are NOT random. A result could be a win OR a loss. Intentions
can be good OE bad. But don’t be
misunderstood. A payoff
table of intentions versus results might indicate a win, but that win could come from bad intentions. It is still a win, but your
intentions were bad. Don’t let that be misunderstood
either.
A payoff matrix is shown below for results AND intentions. The certainty of the payoff matrix is the value of the whole matrix, table, which in each case is 1.0 or 100%. However the payoff matrix on the left is certainty with GOOD intentions and the payoff matrix on the right is certainty with BAD intentions.
This condition is unchanged if the attributes are recharacterized from good and bad intentions to true and false.
The payoff matrices above are with every cell as an integer of 1. If the cells are allowed to be fractional values between 0 and 1, then the following payoff matrices are possible. In each case the certainty is still 100%, but the payoff matrix on the left below can be characterized as a true win while the payoff matrix on the right can be characterized as a false win.
These are not the only matrices which are possible. If the value of any cell has to be greater than zero, which is identical to saying that x has to be greater than zero, then the payoff matrices will still have a certainty of 100%, but they can be generalized where the matrix on the left is a transpose/mirror/reflection of the matrix on the right, i.e. false is the transpose of truth. Normal is a statistical term that the distribution of the number of false wins is identical to, and offsets, the number of false losses. Alternatively, the SUM of false wins and false losses can be viewed as a Tie, since there are three outcomes for every contest, (Win, Loss AND Tie), while there are four cells in a payoff matrix.
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