A lack of access to Cuba,says GAO, has made it difficult to obtain nationally representative data on audience size, and decision-makers have had limited information to assess the relative success or return on investment for each transmission method.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18

And we're data junkies, so we like to get a lot of data before we make a big decision like that.

我们是数据控，所以一般先收集很多数据,在做重大决定的时候。

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Using data to drive decision gives you significantly higher chances of making good, long lasting decision over non data-driven approach .

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There by, many business professionals are finding themselves having to either learn how to optimize those decision using data or make decisions based on gut.

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Too often, people believe the approach to solving complex questions is to just reduce our standards for confidence when making a decision about data (more technically, this may translate to reducing the level of significance in a statistical test).

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