You can't always wait for hard data. Sometimes (especially when it comes to life-affecting questions like "will my company / job survive or not?" it's necessar

You can't always wait for hard data. Sometimes (especially when it comes to life-affecting questions like "will my company / job survive or not?" it's necessary to draw inferences from unstructured observation -- a.k.a. "anecdotal data". It's a very useful cognitive skill, in fact.