Dealing with your stakeholders – the bozzo hypothesis
My father was an actuary (someone who loves statistics and logical thinking). So when I grew up I inherited a different view on life than what most children would inherit.
Once when I was young my father tackled the difficult problem of stranger danger and the fact that there are evil people in the world. To an actuary this is an important lesson for a child to learn because a percentage of the human race are complete ratbags (a complete ratbag is a person of dubious or low morale character – someone on whom you cannot and should not depend).
Thus, my father posited, I must prepare myself for a world where evil and terrible people exist. Let’s assume that 5% of people are really dodgy and cannot be trusted. That means that even in my school there must be dodgy people about – watch out.
But, my father went on – you must remember the bozzo hypothesis (Bozzo is a term meaning “uncommonly and consistently stupid person”).
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