It works both ways though. When the data presented to us suit our current view or agenda, we somehow feel that it's valid. I remember when discussions about "o

It works both ways though. When the data presented to us suit our current view or agenda, we somehow feel that it's valid. I remember when discussions about "open plans" or "estimates" were still a thing, without fail "evidence based" works such as Peopleware or The Mythical Man Month would be mentioned. If this book turned out to agree with the view that "scrum is not really more productive", or "less meetings means more productive", or "the interview process is broken", then we'd all be really glad to refer to its data.