My job is to get people to use data more effectively to make better decisions. It is not a simple task, especially since most of the people I work with are from Venus (read my previous story about “Data Scientists are from Mars, and Business People are from Venus”). They use data, and they understand data, but they don’t always utilize data that is not in-line with what they believe about the world.
It is especially noticeable these days when the world is very different than what we used to see before, with the spread of the Coronavirus Pandemic and the…