Quotes About Evidence-based

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

HubSpot has used the lean startup method to build a spectacularly successful company. What I particularly love about HubSpot is that they are so geeked out on data analysis and making evidence-based decisions, which are at the heart of the Lean Startup process.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

I am strongly committed to evidence-based policymaking across government.

As a single case from half a century ago, Sybil Exposed cannot tell us anything about the reliability, validity, etiology, epidemiology, or typical treatment outcome of a mental disorder. Nathan's alternative theory of pernicious anemia is implausible and supported by no corroborating evidence; Debbie Nathan advocates a hypothetical explanation of Shirley's pre-1945 symptoms that is less evidence based than the trauma dissociation theory she rejects.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded.

You can't make evidence-based policy decisions without evidence.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

Many studies revealed startling truths about technology, such as that routine use of electronic fetal monitoring on every birthing woman does not lower the perinatal mortality rate, but sharply increases the rate of C-sections.

Meritocracy is about recreating science's success in the political, social, economic and religious spheres. It's about rational thinking, evidence-based policies and continual experimentation. It's about deliberately creating institutions of thesis, antithesis and synthesis to provide an engine of progress that drives the world relentlessly forward to an omega point of perfection