Steven Pinker was asked, "What is one thing wrong with the world that you would change, and why?"

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His response: "Too many [people]... surrender to the cognitive bias of assessing the world through anecdotes and images rather than data and facts."

There's actually very little in my experience where the big data contradicts what I glean from observation and anecdote. Maybe nothing.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/06/focal-point-harvard-professor-steven-pinker-says-the-truth-lies-in-the-data/