• OR3X@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 days ago

    a place I worked at updated their company policies one year, and that was one of the changes exactly. 😂

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    To be fair, actual data-driven decisions require sufficient data. Depending on the field, collecting all relevant data may be quite expensive. And then it can be the right call to not do that, to only collect data where it’s cheap and to accept the risk of a gut feeling being wrong for the rest.

    • tiramichu@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      What Mister Manager here actually means here however is that he wants his subordinates to spend countless hours compiling and collating endless monthly reports for him which he will not read, or ignore even if he does read.

    • cymbal_king@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Agreed, just because you have data, doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the whole picture or the data-suggested action is the most feasible

  • Emotional_Series7814@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    ah, but didn’t you know you always trust your gut?

    not me being irrationally mad that when i was on reddit, r/askreddit had so many “trust your gut” stories and threads of “reddit, when did you trust your gut and it turned out to be right,” and very few “reddit, when did you trust your gut and it turned out to be wrong?” threads. but it is also true that stories of avoiding a danger that manifested are more exciting than deciding to not avoid a danger that never manifested, so the latter got fewer clicks and engagement

    just… really glad that i see something agreeing with the “don’t always trust your gut” viewpoint for once. although i super super understand risk aversion and that it’s better to avoid a danger that never manifests than it is to go boldly and end up facing danger, because that’s how i am. but i also imagine that “trusting your gut” and avoiding that weirdo creep just might have been “i’m unfamiliar with this” bias against neurodivergent people who don’t 100% know how to come off normal even if they desperately tried to, or against people from a different culture or race who don’t do the exact same social signaling you’re used to (or maybe they just do, and implicit/unconscious bias does the rest of the work for you). as a neurodivergent person i wonder how many people have “trusted their gut” and decided to write me off. (but i also really can’t blame people for avoiding if they thought i was dangerous, i get it.) there are probably other, more dramatic cases where trusting your gut can legitimately harm yourself or others in a way beyond just missed opportunities or the harms of social exclusion/judgment, but this is the one that immediately comes to mind.