We're too big to give a guy the job with no experience, so we need to see some track record. What they have actually achieved/ past tense = fact.
This is as deep a topic as we have ever had on here.To move one step past Kevin's rationale one is obliged to say what is a fact? What is a perception? What is an opinion?All three concepts stand or fall on the point from which it is viewed. A lady came into my place of work and asked if I am religious. I replied well, I do not believe Jonah was swallowed by a whale. She said he was. I asked why. She replied because the Bible says so.If fact can be so subjective, perception and opinion must also be relative.To escape from the potential quicksand and potential dead cat throwing of this thread I will conclude on a trivial note.As well as religious ladies a lot of very clever people come into my place of work. One such is Professor Arthur Gibson who has the chair of philosophy at Trinity College Cambridge and a world authority on the work of Wittgenstein. I will ask him whether Jonah was swallowed by a whale and thereby get a steer on what is or is not a fact.