Yes it helps you to learn the improper way to tell when your bud is finished...Look at this thread. This should help quite a bit.
https://www.rollitup.org/newbie-central/668203-trichomes-cloudy-amber-ration.html
These scene kids are something else these days...http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Marijuana_Cultivation/HarvestingThough most people go by trichomes, it is not necessarily the best way. The cannabis bud has an actual look to it when it is finished, the calyxes swell, 95% of the hairs change color, and the hairs recede into the calyx.
Pull to early and he can lose ALOT of weight/potency in the last week or so cause he went by the trichomes....
As i said before and here is a thread by a person here with more experience then everyone currently in this forum....
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html