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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Benn Stancil

Analysts have already lost the battle there is nothing that can be done now. We are all paid shills.

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Apr 22, 2022Liked by Benn Stancil

"Nearly every news story, every blog post, every analyst report, and even every email that references some corporate statistic follows the same pattern..."

Without any contextless data to back up this claim, what am I to do? Simply take Benn at his word? Of course.

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May 3, 2022Liked by Benn Stancil

"experts say...." Sometimes I'm amazed at what there are experts in.

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Apr 25, 2022Liked by Benn Stancil

Not to respond with undue seriousness or in too optimistic of a tone, but I *think* that (at least inside of organizations) this problem can be fixed by two things:

1. citations that include reproducibility / provenance. tell me how you got to that number! could include a link to a data catalog, dashboard, whatever.

2. the ability of any reader to start a comment thread (as in gdocs/notion/etc) on top of any stat you post.

100% agree that this may not be soluble in the public internet. but with these two things, while everyone isn't going to be able to challenge every line of reasoning, _some people_ inside of an organization will. and they'll have the ability to socialize that in line with the original statement.

we have the opportunity to create an information context that lets more speech cure misleading speech! the structure of the communication channels and structure of the knowledge creation / dissemination tooling makes all the difference.

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