On Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 20:41:56 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
My experience with people who don't want to use a product I've
worked on is:
1. they'll give reason X, which is usually something that
sounds convenient
2. I fix X, they can use it now!
3. they then give reason Y, after thinking about it for a minute
What's happening is neither X nor Y is the real reason. They
just don't want to tell me the real reason, usually because
it's an emotional one.
Yes, emotions come into play, but the 'emotion argument' on its
own explains nothing.
The 'real reason' is that people are by nature, aversive to
losses.
This impacts how people evaluate a choice.
e.g. an aversion to losing an existing skill set...
what you need to do, is argue you're case in a way that produces
more dopamine neurons to activate ;-)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
