data is never wrong
"The emphasis on data reduces ideological passion. I may be right or you may be right, but we don’t need to fight it out. We will see in the end because the data is always right."
This seems like a somewhat naive idea, because the problem with "the data is always right" is that it just begs the question: *what* data? What do you measure, how, and over what timescale? Unless all parties involved can magically agree on that (and how likely is that, if the debate is e.g. about a feature that enhances revenue but compromises user privacy - who's going to draw up a framework for measuring that tradeoff?), all you've done is move the question around a bit...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
