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data phobic

data phobic adjective: tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.

Adjective

data phobic (comparative more data phobic, superlative most data phobic)

  1. Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.
    • That may not be a welcome suggestion; many proponents of data-driven instruction will swear that teachers are historically "data phobic."2006, Eric Jensen, Enriching the Brain: How to Maximize Every Learner's Potential, →ISBN
    • I think people in our field are a bit data phobic. They are not trained to work with it. They are not trained to use it and interpret it.2008, Bonita Stanton, Jennifer Galbraith, Linda Kaljee, The Uncharted Path from Clinic-based to Community-based Research

Forms of data phobic

comparativemore data phobic
superlativemost data phobic
alternative formdata-phobic
alternative formdataphobic

Questions about data phobic

What does data phobic mean?
Data phobic means tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.
What part of speech is data phobic?
Data phobic is an adjective.

Words near data phobic in the dictionary

  1. data munging
  2. data object
  3. data objects
  4. data path
  5. data paths
  6. data phobic
  7. data plane
  8. data planes
  9. data point
  10. data points
  11. data poisoning

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