Kevin Jorgeson Quotes

I don't have a particular recommendation other than that we base decisions on as much hard data as possible. We need to carefully look at all the options and all their ramifications in making our decisions.

You need the right balance between data and gut feeling.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.

The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data.

I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

The most valuable thing you can have as a leader is clear data.

Good policy is grounded in a robust set of facts and data.

Data is a tool for enhancing intuition.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

Passion provides purpose, but data drives decisions.

I've said many times that I'm not one of those people who check statistics, follows history, and says, 'If I do this, what will happen.'

Let the dataset change your mindset

Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can't perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.

Approximating involves making a series of educated guesses systematically by partitioning the problem into manageable chunks, identifying assumptions, and then using your general knowledge of the world to fill in the blanks.

I've never been a stat guy.

It is clear that I am a person who believes fundamentally in facts, evidence, data, and science, which supports decision-making and allows us to function as a society based on knowledge.

Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do.

I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.

The market is full of talk, I prefer facts, which help us win, and to become great together.

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

If you're going to decide to run a data-driven campaign, decision-making has to follow it.