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This is the danger of data-driven decision making. You can only gather a very, very small subset of all data. So now you're basing your decisions off of a tiny
by const_cast 1y ago
This is the danger of data-driven decision making.
You can only gather a very, very small subset of all data. So now you're basing your decisions off of a tiny picture, so you end up with sometimes strange conclusions. Conclusions that, intuitively, make no sense. But the data says so, so I guess that's what we do.
- reverendsteveii 1y agoI mean, doing it wrong is a danger in any process. Data driven decision making should do every meaningful thing it can to ensure that its small subset of data is representative of the whole picture. If you're careful about being random you can do that pretty accurately with a shockingly small subset of data.
- const_cast 1y agoIn my experience, data-driven decision making is typically a reverse engineered process. Typically the decision is already made, usually based on a combination of experience, ego, and emotions. Then you have to find and structure data to justify it to other people. You can find data to justify almost any decision.
- reverendsteveii 1y agoHow are you sure this isn't a data-driven opinion?