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Akeel Alleyne's avatar

The last two paragraphs here nailed the importance of this distinction home quite well!

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Dr. Jim Salvucci's avatar

What a fantastic breakdown of an important distinction. I used to work in higher ed, and I would often see job ads for top administrative roles (president or VPs) that would call for “data-driven decision making.” This was supposed to weed out the ones who just winged it from the ones who were steely-eyed realists, but actually it privileges smarts over wisdom.

There is nothing wrong with data-driven decision making so long as data is just one tool among many.

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