Data vs Intuition
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Data vs Intuition
the human race generates as much data in two days now as it did in all of history before the year 2003,
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
A PM I once worked with was struggling to persuade somebody of something. I told him to ask them the question, “What data would I have to show you to get you to change your mind?” If they didn’t have a clear answer, then he would know this was an idea they held on faith, a bit like a religious belief. No amount of data can sway a person from their... See more
Deb Liu • Changing Your Mind
"when the data and anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. it’s not that the data is miscollected, it’s that you’re not measuring the right thing"
Jeff Bezos on the Lex Fridman podcast
Don’t get paralyzed by testing everything. If you can’t get statistical significance within a month, use pre/post analysis instead. Trust intuition more, especially when:
You have low traffic/conversion volumes
The change is low-risk
You need to move quickly
The impact is obvious
You have low traffic/conversion volumes
The change is low-risk
You need to move quickly
The impact is obvious
I was reading an article about the state of SaaS recently, and came across this line:
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The data moat surrounding incumbent SaaS / systems of record is likely overstated. I would argue that the most important context doesn’t reside in systems of records, regardless of their size, but in the minds and multimodal work of millions of users over time.
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