An example might help illustrate the point. In a workplace organizing campaign, often the first workers an organizer meets are those who might be termed the “loudmouths.” They talk back to the boss—but they talk back to everyone else as well. Inexperienced organizers often mistakenly identify them as natural leaders, when in fact their coworkers rarely pay serious attention to anything they say. More experienced organizers know this, and also know that identifying the real leaders takes more time and a more subtle understanding of workplace dynamics. But when they’re organizing support in the community, they’ll go straight to the “loudmouth” priest who talks a radical line, without noticing that no one in town outside his tiny congregation pays any attention to what he says, and meanwhile they’ll overlook quieter clergy whose large congregations include many of the workers in the organizing campaign.