One of the harder lessons of life is that occasionally people get wedged into ideological positions where they want comforting lies that confirm their existing

One of the harder lessons of life is that occasionally people get wedged into ideological positions where they want comforting lies that confirm their existing beliefs. These situations often are very dangerous for companies, because it creates incredible pressure on lower level people to produce dubious models, and on middle managers to accept dubiously supported models. As far as who is culpable for those situations … it’s not clear to me.