Influence depends on the person who is influencing and the person who is influenced.

One could look at the result from the perspective of being right.

Another way to evaluate the result is by determining if it worked or not.

But neither of both enables a repeatable result.

However, a combination of both may lead to a choice.

Certainly not a choice of knowing what is right or who is right. But maybe an understanding of what works with whom.

Once this is understood, a door opens to deciding if this is right. But also to decide that it is independent from what works,