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Bezos also said, "When the anecdotes disagree with the data, it's usually the anecdotes that are right"
by carabiner 2y ago
Bezos also said, "When the anecdotes disagree with the data, it's usually the anecdotes that are right"
- robenkleene 2y agoThe end of that quote is "there is something wrong with the way that you are measuring your data". Which changes the meaning of the quote (without it, it's "value anecdotes over data", with it, it's "use inconsistencies with anecdotes to identify problems with data".
- godelski 2y agoHere, I'll formalize it with statistical language: "the likelihood of the events we sample are inconsistent with the model we've used to explain our data."