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Be Good-Argument-Driven, Not Data-Driven
There’s nothing wrong with a fondness for data. The trouble begins when you begin to favor bad arguments that involve data over good arguments that don’t, or insist that metrics be introduced in realms where data can’t realistically be the foundation of a good argument.
twitchard.github.io • Be Good-Argument-Driven, Not Data-Driven
People who insist that every product decision should be metrics-driven would also have to logically admit that theirs will be the first job to get automated by AI.
Shreyas Doshix.comIt is, says Aristotle, the mark of the educated person to seek the appropriate amount of precision for each subject.
Large-scale data collection efforts will likely be useful when they target those qualities that:
Are highly invariant and stable between contexts
Have accessible, mechanical methods for being counted
Do not involve a value decision
One of... See more
Large-scale data collection efforts will likely be useful when they target those qualities that:
Are highly invariant and stable between contexts
Have accessible, mechanical methods for being counted
Do not involve a value decision
One of... See more