The following sayings about data and information are often used in business to convey an important idea. As you read these, select three and write down how they could be used to convey an idea from this chapter:
“If you want a green suit, turn on a green light.”
“You don’t fatten the pig by weighing it.”
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.”
“Statistics are no substitute for judgment . . . and vice versa.”
“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”
“It ain’t so much the things we know that get us in trouble, it’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”