Yet his obvious shortcomings — superficial insights and an uncharismatic persona — belie his prospects.
B-school contest judges are usually generalists who have only superficial insights into the internal dynamics of the industries at which these plans are aimed.
Yet, although data collected through questionnaires usually offer more superficial insights and do not reflect cultural nuances, when administered to a representative and large sample they can be safely extrapolated to the population from which the sample was obtained.
"Within the frame of superficial social insights," a pivotal scholar of black intellectual history, Harold Cruse, wrote, "Baldwin's literary skills have seduced many people to accept as profound a message that was, from the first, rather thin, confused and impressionistic".
Counting likes and clicks leads to superficial consumer insights and ads that consumers want to block, but using revenue-based data that reveals true consumer motivation helps to create dialogues that consumers actually want to be a part of.
And while this is enough time to gain only a superficial amount of insight into the Japanese tech scene, I've gotten the impression that things aren't fundamentally that different from the way things are back home; there are just idiosyncrasies (albeit important ones) within the Japanese tech landscape.
In the preliminary stages of self-acceptance, depending on the individual and their path, it may be easy to think that some superficial levels of insight are profound.
Unfortunately, it is quite difficult to present the deepest truths that emerge from the kind of personal struggle that existential phenomenology demands without thereby inadvertently supplying the public with another leveled-down formula to bandy about, a familiar catchphrase (like "language is the house of being") that quickly becomes a superficial substitute for the insight it bespeaks.
