Evidence Based Decision Making Quotes

“We must speak truth to power and confront ignorance with facts.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.”
― Robert Lane Greene, You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

“In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers.”
― Martin Worthington, Principles of Akkadian Textual Criticism

“Believe what you wish, but prove what you can.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.”
― Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

“At a stage in life, you learn to talk less. That is, let your works do the talking. Hence, work hard in silence. The evidence will be clear for all to see.”
― Oscar Bimpong

“If our ideas are not evolving with verifiable evidence, they are not reliable ideas.”
― Carmine Savastano, Two Princes And A King: A Concise Review of Three Political Assassinations

“Gen. Scott saw more through the eyes of his staff officers than through his own.”
― H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace

“Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hunches. Evidence-based management
complements analytics by adding validated cause-and-effect relationships
between policies and effects.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“They made strategy at 33,000 feet (on) the campaign plane.”
― Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus

“You see, faith means the same thing as the word “trust”, or as I often like to say; “Faith is when someone is holding you over a ledge and you know in your heart that not only will they not let you fall, they’ll pull you up to safety”. You know that the person holding onto you exists. You have very powerful evidence that that person exists, but you still have faith in them. This is the real definition of the word “faith”.”
― Evan Minton, Inference To The One True God: Why I Believe In Jesus Instead Of Other Gods

“You may think God's solution to sin is axiomatic, but if you practice sin you only force others around you into wanting more evidence because your evidence is just words and not evidence of a changed life”
― John M Sheehan

“Best to be humble unless people are unreasonable, then best to be direct.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Another situation in which we attend to base rates occurs if people ascribe some causal significance to discrepant rates. When they can see the causal relevance of the base rates, they often incorporate them into their reasoning. For example, the belief that one bus company has more accidents than another because its drivers are more poorly selected and trained will influence mock jurors to take this difference in accident rates into account in evaluating eyewitness testimony; but belief that a bus company has more accidents simply because it is larger will not. Study after study has shown that when these rates are merely statistical as opposed to causal, they tend to be ignored. Exactly the same effect seems to occur in real courtrooms; naked statistical evidence is notoriously unpersuasive.”
― Reid Hastie, Rational Choice in an Uncertain World: The Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making

“If you are uninterested in the unfiltered facts, keep the term "truth" from your lips.”
― A.E. Samaan

“CSJ is fundamentally incompatible with the enlightenment values and scientific worldview of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).”
― Dr Val Thomas, Cynical Therapies: Perspectives on the Antitherapeutic Nature of Critical Social Justice

“Philosophy offers a deeper truth that no amount of data can touch”
― Dr. Howard Christian