<p>Is our increasing obsession with numerical data a bad thing? Chicago Booth's Erika Kirgios and her coauthors came up with the term "quantification fixation" to describe how we tend to overweight numbers compared to qualitative evidence. What are the risks to that tendency? And how can you use quantification fixation to your advantage?</p>

Is our increasing obsession with numerical data a bad thing? Chicago Booth's Erika Kirgios and her coauthors came up with the term "quantification fixation" to describe how we tend to overweight numbers compared to qualitative evidence. What are the risks to that tendency? And how can you use quantification fixation to your advantage?

Are we too obsessed with numerical data?

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