Cognitive biases can affect various stages of the data analysis process including data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Here are a few ways cognitive biases can influence data analysis and what you can do to avoid that.
An article that attempts to explain what P-Values mean in statistics in plain English without the technical jargon.
In observing and interacting with more than 200 companies since 2001, I observed patterns across companies where business improvement struggled. There are the characteristics I observed that now tell me a business improvement initiative probably needs to be looked at or it is at risk of disappearing or being replaced with another.
Many students of ‘root cause analysis’ training are taught to ask questions based on the word ‘why’. This article explains why that question might not be the best one.
I found a way, years ago, to avoid getting bogged down in data – to avoid the challenge of ‘paralysis by analysis’ when digging into the numbers to find the cause of something.
Remembering the contribution of Dr. W. Edwards Deming to the total quality movement and the foundations he built for all of us involved in business improvement.