I tend to think about FRC from a district point of view these days
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In practice, the decision would be made without knowing the event outcome (i.e., lose in QF vs. win event) so the conditional decision (with given outcome) would have a different bias.
Playing robots late on a Saturday afternoon is one of best experiences FRC student team members can have, and it is pretty good for mentors as well. On that basis I choose B both times (conditionally) but would choose A both times if the outcome were not given.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)