[miscPerson]

“The thing I have noticed is that when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There is something wrong with the way that you are measuring it.”

— Jeff Bezos

Trusting your eyes over people with replication rates in the 20-50% range (ie, social scientists) is probably a rational choice.

There’s plenty of evidence that polls have systemic inaccuracies — question phrasing, people giving “right” answers, etc.

[miscPerson]

I’m genuinely unsure what point you’re trying to make.

Can you explain what a made up quote has in common with repeating a quote from the CEO of a famously data driven company on problems with data models?