Value of Evidence-Based Decisionmaking

PATimes

Even in agencies that vocally support evidence-based decision-making and use one of the decision-making modalities described in the article, there exists the potential for the evidence to be muddied through ineffective leadership. Too often, sub-optimal outcomes are the product of professional judgment that derails an informed rational decision-making process.

Dataphobia

Barrett & Greene

With so many numbers being tossed around without any backing, it’s no wonder that there’s some good reasons to doubt every data point you come across. But the more the very notion grows, that much of the data used by the states and localities is invalid, the less likely it is that residents will trust their work at all.