> Do we think the people making calls like that would suddenly have great ideas in the absence of data? Personally, I would be so bold to suggest that yes the

> Do we think the people making calls like that would suddenly have great ideas in the absence of data? Personally, I would be so bold to suggest that yes the availability of data for people ill equipped to interpret it can lead to WORSE decisions than the absence of data. That is because statistics and the general skill to correctly interpret data is actively counterintuitive. Untrained people will be more likely to generate wrong conclusions than right conclusions. So, yes data in the wrong hands can and will be harmful.