[ClumsyPilot]

You just critiqued the author for assuming he know whether the decision was made on data.

Now youare assuming its about homelessness - you dont know that homelessness was even considered in any way when this decision was made, so this entire critique is baseless.

For all we know someone wanted to look like their are innovating, and got some brownie point for their end of year

[yourenotsmart]

How can you say "I assume" things which are literally SAID in the parent comment? Do you know what "assume" means?

As for the "all we know" thesis, for all you know the Sun might not rise tomorrow. But odds are it will. And therefore all thought process and decision making is made on odds. Not on absolute, perfect certainty.

And the odds are that management decisions at McDonald's have a higher quality data sourcing and analysis process, and have spent more time figuring a problem out, than bunch of random people on Hacker News, who spoke about McDonald's that day simply because they saw a tweet about it.

But of course, "for all we know" maybe the Einstein of fast food is here among us, so who knows?!