You guys are covering my career experience from 1978 to 2015. I was the requirements development guy in the 80s, communicating between the business community and the programmers. I saw how sensitive program success was to correct business requirements.
I moved into Six Sigma in 2003, which was similar—you had to have the correct goal or shut down the project. My company, Caterpillar, actually stopped political projects when they were demonstrated to be useless.
Then people manipulated the data to show whatever they wished and Six Sigma is now out. The experience taught me how climate change advocates manipulate stats.
Cat outsourced in the 2000s and suffered for it. They insourced in the 2010s. I was forced into retirement in 2015 during the Obama coal industry destruction.
“The experience taught me how climate change advocates manipulate stats.”
In college I took audio/video production, statistics, and marketing in the same semester. In one swipe my eyes were opened to how to generate stats, skew their meaning, and how to present them!
I never saw Tv commercials the same!