Anecdotally, having lived in areas where wind farms were repeatedly proposed and then rapidly shot down by neighbors, the NIMBYism was never about science, much less methodology. The kinds of people living in places where you'd want to build wind farms (rural ag land, mainly) tend to be pretty traditional, conservative, anti-government, independent, and basically it's-my-land-dammit types. You can show up with presentations and videos and visualizations and simulations and offer free power and cash incentives and all that, but it usually boils down to "No, because I don't like it, and I don't like you, and I don't trust people like you". It doesn't matter how technically sound a project is if it still seems like "here's another bunch of suits trying to sell us something that only benefits the city dwellers we hate 500 miles away, while telling us they know our land better than we do."

Their values and systems of belief/reality-building and trust networks are totally different. Successfully negotiating that doesn't mean "my numbers are more correct" but understanding the different subcultures, what's important to them, and being able to respectfully and empathetically communicate according to their needs, not yours.