dataphobic

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A form of data phobic — Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.

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Meanings

adjectivedataphobic (comparative more dataphobic, superlative most dataphobic)

comparative more dataphobic · superlative most dataphobic

  1. alternativeAlternative form of data phobic.

    The dataphobic mindset (“It's not like that in Burkina Faso”) can lead to real tragedy.

    2018, Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, →ISBN
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    It is both practical and "doable" and will guide even the most "dataphobic" in selecting and acquiring statistical measures.

    1995, Journal of Youth Services in Libraries - Volume 9, page 17

    Because, as outlined in Chapter 3, they suffer from the most crippling weaknesses: They are uniquely cellular, goal-averse, and dataphobic—more so than perhaps any other kind of organization (Lortie 1975, Rosenholtz 1989).

    1999, Mike Schmoker, Results: The Key to Continuous School Improvement, →ISBN, page 61
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