Laura said:That was the point. There was a lot of complaining about sore arms after the previous answer and exclamations about how hard it had been to keep up with the speed. MOST of that was omitted from the transcript as noise. Obviously that omission has led to false assumptions. Geeze, people complain if you keep in every little remark, and they get false impressions if you don't. I thought that just enough was left in, but apparently not.
Exactly.
Also keep in mind that in the case of the [Everybody yammering at once], there is a LOT being said.
Even if my brain can keep up with all the conversations, it's nearly impossible to transcribe. So instead of killing myself to get everything totally perfect, I only include the most relevant statements such that the gist of the dialog comes through as accurately as possible.
On top of that, there are things like people being tired, sore arms (especially after fast and long answers), etc. That's either hard to convey in a transcript, or kind of unnecessary because describing every little thing would mean longer transcription times, longer and more verbose transcripts, etc.
Point is, there is usually a LOT going on during a session that won't "come through" in the transcripts. And that's exactly why Laura has been stressing for years now that the context of sessions and the questions and answers is very important: because it is!
Now, all of that is on top of the nature of communication with the C's. I don't have the transcript at hand, but we did one last year I think where we were asking for numbers about something, and it seemed to be getting discombobulated. So we asked about that, and the answer was basically that it's rather difficult to give such numbers because there are a gajillion variables.
I think the C's also indicated that for them (and here I'm using my own analogy) it's like having to zoom in through clouds while being able to see everything all at once throughout all time: it ain't easy!
So yeah, we asked for numbers, but personally, I never expect the numbers to be 100% accurate. That's not really the point. The point is to get a general idea of "who won" in the case of the elections.
Of course, we here also get caught up in the numbers sometimes, but such is life trapped in a human machine! ;D