H2Bro said:
The salient obstacles and structures of action we individually face constitute our personal realities; the immediacy and apparent objectivity of these facts lead us to conclude they must be externally real and independent of ourselves - the real world.
You get into deep philosophical issues when you talk about "social reality" which is different from "physical reality." For example, the speed of light happens to be the same for everyone, and gravity works the same. So if you stand on a tall building and jump expecting to fly, it's not going to happen. In physics, there is one shared reality. This makes things easy. You drop an apple, you see what happens, and you can assume that the rules of apple dropping apply whether you are on Time Square or on Alpha Centauri. You can assume that if you drop an apple, then the next time you drop an apple, it will behave in more or less the same way. You can isolate the force of gravity from other forces.
For things in marketing, it's very different. Whether a second bachelors will help or hurt depends on your particular situation, and people just live in different versions of "social reality." Also you get into deep issues of causality. In physics there is a relatively simple causality model. I drop an apple. It falls. I drop an another apple. It also falls.
People aren't that simple. I tell someone a joke. They laugh. I tell them exactly the same joke five seconds later, and it's not as funny because they've heard it before.
Just as an example of how "social reality" works differently in different places, and how things can blow up. Someone gives a speech and asks "any questions." Among astrophysicists, if you start asking aggressive questions challenging the speech, it's considered a sign of respect, and asking an aggressive question is considered a positive thing since it increases your social standing.
Among business managers, publicly asking aggressive questions challenging the speech is considered a sign of disrespect, and can get you into a lot of trouble, since people will consider you rude and stupid for asking those questions.
You have different social realities (and things get really messy when you have business managers who are astrophysicists, since it's not often clear what the rules are).
Depending on what kind of pools of competition you enter a second bachelors may either help or hinder, but regardless is usually making up for lost time/taking three steps forward and two steps back.
Sure and one way of dealing with "social truth" is to drop apples in as many different situations as you can and see what happens. If it turns out that if drop an apple in the wrong way and at the wrong time, it could turn into a armed hand grenade, then this is useful information.
So if I've dropped an apple and it's blown up in my face, this could be useful information for you.