Surely, “it was a big gamble that didn’t pay off” works as well as an explanation here. They didn’t realise how bad it would be and regret taking up the offer.
I guess, but it doesn’t explain why it was so bad.
I should say, I don’t mean “it doesn’t explain why” is a knockdown debunking because usually when stuff happens, one doesn’t find out why. (But it can still be desirable to know why to be better educated about how it will generalize, hence why I post a hypothesis that I think is worthy of investigation and which I suspect helps me to make sense of things.)
Surely, “it was a big gamble that didn’t pay off” works as well as an explanation here. They didn’t realise how bad it would be and regret taking up the offer.
I guess, but it doesn’t explain why it was so bad.
I should say, I don’t mean “it doesn’t explain why” is a knockdown debunking because usually when stuff happens, one doesn’t find out why. (But it can still be desirable to know why to be better educated about how it will generalize, hence why I post a hypothesis that I think is worthy of investigation and which I suspect helps me to make sense of things.)