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Data has CYA appeal.


Needing to CYA also has pretty low emotional appeal for managers, exec's, and alpha-data-scientist wanna-be's. (Until it's just about too late, obviously.)

And recall Mark Twain's old quip about lies & statistics. The more & bigger data that the folks who control the data & analysis have, the easier it is to make sure that those meet their own emotional & political needs.


Wasn't that Will Rogers?



Yep.




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