> On good days, I find it a small miracle that we can sometimes make justified conclusions from data. On bad days, it feels that making conclusions from data is

> On good days, I find it a small miracle that we can sometimes make justified conclusions from data. On bad days, it feels that making conclusions from data is storytelling, not science. If you dig far enough down the rabbithole, you eventually find that the numbers are being pulled out of someone's proverbial ass. But pulling numbers out of your ass and using them to make a conclusion is a lot better than pulling a conclusion out of your ass and using it to make numbers.