[throwaway0asd]

> When data proved his idea was wrong, he would say words to the effect of "I don't care, because I still believe I'm right from an ideological background".

I cannot imagine commercial software in any form where that is not the prevailing sentiment. I have heard of developers who actually measure things in the capacity of their corporate employment but in 20 years of doing this work I have only seen it once.

As such I don’t even bother mentioning performance or correctness at work (across all my employers) where evidence is so hastily discarded and inconvenient conclusions are a suicide pill.