[datavirtue]

I worked with a guy who loudly pointed this out in executive meetings where marketing and analytics were presenting. Then he wouldn't let it go, loudly proclaiming the sham in the hallways and through various emails.

He was laughing at them in their faces, even, and was 100% correct. They excluded him from any further meetings.

Every time they brought up a new stat and set off alarm bells he would bring up their massive fuckup and rub it in their face, and then would dig through the data and question every point.

He was eventually fired for pointing out how incompetent our new owners were after an acquisition, and would have been a lot happier joining everyone in their sham.

[ludicity]

Yeah, I haven't seen anyone do this firsthand, but all my social intuition tells me that you can't challenge the social reality being presented. You can yell at one manager, call his team incompetent, so on (all deeply inadvisable), but in my heart, I don't think anything would get you strategically blackballed and removed faster than saying "So... what do we all produce, exactly? Oh? You realize that's absolutely worthless, right?"