What if the current enthusiasm for data-driven govt at the speed of light is *actually* just a bias for making decisions on the fly? And what if - right now, to get the appropriate velocity - those snap decisions are often based on personal experience and very little actual data?
Random bits of evidence to support this: the govt seemingly being surprised by Eid; the assumption that all classes can have 15 children in them; early relaxation for nannies and household staff but wider deprioritisation of childcare infra; the big garden bias...
Maybe I am wrong about the perils of an over-reliance on quant-driven govt in this instance, because what if *some* data is better than none at all? Or would it deepen ad hoc bias even further?
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