Thank you for emphasizing this. As I’ve gotten older, it has become clearer to me that there are a fair amount of facts that we are simply not capable of using correctly. As human beings, we have definite deficiencies in our ability and willingness to reason. At the point that we can with certainty say that certain facts will be abused in a manner that the facts themselves do not support, I have to question gathering those facts in the first place.
People in positions of responsibility have the responsibility to understand how the facts they gather will be used and more importantly, misused.
The “value-added” figures could theoretically be used in a productive and accurate fashion.
But they won’t.
And when the certainty that they won’t approaches 1, it’s time to face reality and stop gathering them.
