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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Management: but does the data reflect what I already know I want to do?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That’s true for everyone, not just management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

true, but some are worse than others.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There few things more painful than seeing your boss struggle through something you know intimately, but because of ego and hierarchy you can’t hand-hold them in front of everyone. Until they finally stumble through and declare proudly “Hah, that was easy!”

…It was a hidden column Jeremy, not someone else’s VBA code without comments you have to repair.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

... I don't like gravy, or poorly readable charts.