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"Without data you're just another person with an opinion"💡

Data avoids arguments so does the willingness to seek out data. If none of us has data to share then we can't help but bring our own personal biases, preferences, and opinions to the table — anyone might be right, but who's to say ?
It's why I love this quote from W. Edwards Deming:
"Without data you're just another person with an opinion."

Perhaps you've been in a car with several backseat drivers who all seem to know better than the driver. Or maybe you've been part of a review for a new initiative where everyone has their own views of what will make it succeed. We can't know who's right until we bring some data. It's amazing how even a little data can avoid an "I'm right, you're wrong" situation.

And where there isn't data, framing a discussion on how to quickly gather data or experiment to find out which approach may be best so often focuses a team, removing ego and opinions.

After all, as saying goes:
"If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine."

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"The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" 🤨

You buy a certain brand of car, and all of a sudden, you start seeing that car everywhere, whereas you didn’t in the past. When you learn a new word or new concept, suddenly you start seeing it everywhere in your life. You start thinking, “Wow, this is weird, how is it possible I’ve never seen this word in my life and now I have seen it 3 times this week or why do I keep seeing those new shoes everywhere I go, they must be becoming so popular. The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon is an illusion in which, after noticing something for the first time, there is a tendency to notice it more. It occurs when increased awareness of something creates the illusion that it is appearing more often and then perpetuates your search to keep confirming that these coincidences must have some kind of meaning. Basically, our brains are master pattern recognition machines that are always searching for meaning in data. What is amazing are all the patterns and stimuli flooding you every single day that your brain simply ignores because it is not in your awareness. We only see the things we are looking out for. In reality, you have most likely seen that word or car a number of times, but your mind simply wasn’t interested in noticing it.

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