I was going to make a similar comment. My experience has repeatedly been: if the data you have doesn’t show what leadership wants to see, you’d better find some

I was going to make a similar comment. My experience has repeatedly been: if the data you have doesn’t show what leadership wants to see, you’d better find some “better” data. It’s even worse when you don’t have direct knowledge about what precisely it is that leadership wants. I’ve had multiple situations where I’ve worked hard on some analysis only to be told, when the line goes the wrong way, that the results “don’t look right” and that I should try something else. A corollary to this is that I can not recall as single time when leadership reversed their initial decision/intuition when shown data that contradicts it.