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Scenario

How to resolve empirical versus experiential conflicts in research teams

Our research team is split between the data scientists who won't move forward without statistical significance and the ethnographers who insist the numbers miss the human reality, and we're stuck because neither side will budge on what constitutes valid evidence for our conclusions.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A collaborative group faces paralysis when members hold irreconcilable views about what forms of evidence should guide shared decisions.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Empiricism vs. rationalism?”

Peri

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