Is it just me, or "taking data driven decisions" is just a way to not take responsibilities?<p>This is what typically happens in my team: team leader calls a meeting, in which a few ideas are proposed, let's call them A, B, and C. Of course, for none of them we have data to decide which one to pick.<p>Team leader ends the meeting and says: let's decide another day, let's sit on it.<p>One week later, team leader announces that he picked option A because "We don't have enough data to back option B and C"... But we don't have data even for option A, so why invoking the "data driven selection"?<p>It's now years that this kind of approach keeps happening, and I don't know if I should just jump ship or bear with it (FAANG salary).<p>Is this data driven decision making? I hope not! How should it look like? What can I bring forward to encourage a mindset change?