So says Derek Wenmoth. But do you think so? What if you're Rene Descartes or John Locke, who wielded logic, not data, to reshape human thought. What if you're, say, Einstein, who used a thought experiment? What if you're Shakespeare, who employed the tools of literature and metaphor to carve out a concise understanding of his human subjects. What if you're Monet with a paintbrush, or Hemingway with a tale? What if you're Churchill, with an army, or Ford, with an assembly line? What if you're Bill Gates with an operating system, or Steve Jobs with a computer? What if you see the world though some other point of view than that of the bean-counter. Are you just another person with an opinion? Really?
What we now understand is that you can collect data like crazy, but if you don't know what you're measuring, or worse, think you're measuring one thing while measuring another, you are not even as informed as a mere person with an opinion.
What we now understand is that you can collect data like crazy, but if you don't know what you're measuring, or worse, think you're measuring one thing while measuring another, you are not even as informed as a mere person with an opinion.
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