Blind men and an elephant

A parable where a group of blind men were asked to describe an elephant by touching it. Each of the person describes the elephant differently and they started to think that the other were not telling the truth.

It reflects on the failure to see the whole picture.

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• Movement increases accuracy of perception
  • If the blind men in the Blind men and an elephant parable can move around and feel the whole elephant, they can increase the accuracy of their perception.
• Software diagram helps seeing the whole
  • Software engineers who write code without diagramming is like the Blind men and an elephant.