"Show Me the Data" Is a Stall Tactic
Youve just presented a recommendation based on user interviews and heuristic analysis. The engineering lead says: "Interesting, but do you have quantitative data?" You dont — because the kind of data theyre asking for would require a six\-week experiment youll never get approved. This issue gives you the language to name the pattern and the playbook to respond.
What this issue covers:
\— The accessibility fight I lost (and what it taught me about evidence politics)
\— The "evidence threshold" fallacy — risk aversion dressed as rigor
\— The Evidence Spectrum: matching the right proof type to the right decision
\— The one question that flips the burden from "prove your case" to "define the goalposts"
