I've run into this, to great frustration in nearly every aspect of life. There's little room for evidence in the face of countless religions. For a singular ex

I've run into this, to great frustration in nearly every aspect of life. There's little room for evidence in the face of countless religions. For a singular example, my clients and colleagues are more likely to practice their own arcane rituals that they've gleaned from legends of SEO or UX sooth-sayers than to let me implement systems like split testing or - gods forbid - an actual user study. The truth is more difficult and less comfortable than their personal mythos. In the case that they do employ a "science" it's misapplied not unlike the pseudoscientific Witch test from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, making changes based on a single study with a tiny set of users and without even testing the proposed changes.