[jupiter90000]

Thanks for your perspective. It is disheartening to see what you're talking about happen. I've definitely witnessed this first-hand and it was frustrating to me to essentially see lots of rigorous scientific work be dismissed because of someone's ego or because someone making the decisions couldn't wrap their brain around it.

What I've seen around this is analytics professionals hired under the pretense that their skills to produce accurate scientific conclusions will be used for the good of a business, yet having their conclusions and efforts dismissed for no good reason other than decision makers 'didn't get it' or otherwise just refused to heed the results. So why did they hire experts in the first place, then? To lend the company credibility that it doesn't really deserve? I'm sure lots of the reason for this type of thing is politically motivated, as you previously mentioned.