[bell-cot]

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.

[kylereeve]

Wasn't that Will Rogers?

[blooalien]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statist...

I wonder if that's the quote they mean?

[bell-cot]

Yep.