This document is a collection of images and quotes on the topic of data, decision making, and human psychology. It discusses how human brains have not evolved as quickly as access to data. While data is abundant, it does not necessarily change people's minds. Stories are often more persuasive than statistics and data. The document suggests we must account for factors beyond just measurable data, and that human problems require illogical or non-rational approaches.

1. Beyond Measure
Erika Hall

3. Flickr/fungleo

4. [dramatisation]
Flickr/eskimo_jo

6. [a dramatization]
The Nourishing Home / Kelly Smith

7. ?

9. luckyironfish.com

11. Stories
have
power

12. Flickr/ Billy Wilson

13. This is pretty
creepy when
you think
about it.
Flickr/ thevlue

14. 2,500,000
000,000,
000,000
bytes

15. Flickr/ JD Hancock

17. 90%

18. ?

19. This is pretty
creepy when
you think
about it.
Flickr/ thevlue

25. Flickr/ cle0patra

27. Life,The Universe,
and Everything =?

29. 7,500,000
years later...

31. 42!

32. “It would have been
simpler to know
what the actual
question was.”

33. “Only when you
know the question,
will you know what
the answer means.”

34. Flickr/johnwiechecki

35. I am a
rational
biped.
Flickr/gabbahey

36. Lies,
Damn Lies,
and Statistics

39. Original image: Olly Moss

40. quantified-mind.com

42. A
B

44. Green
Yellow

45. Traffic
Quality

46. Attention
Cash

47. New!
Familiar

48. Safe
Exciting

49. More
Cheaper

50. Mine
Ours

51. $$$
Welcome

52. More
Enough

53. Yes

54. Flickr/ theloushe

55. What
ought to
be
What
is
Flickr/ joncandy

57. Human
problems
require illogical
approaches.

59. Isn’t it obvious?

60. We are blind
to our minds.

62. System
1
System
2

63. System
1
Fast
Intuitive
Emotional

64. Slow
Deliberative
Effortful
System
2

65. Data doesn’t
change
minds.

66. Related Experience
Feels Familiar
Feels True
Clear Display
Primed Idea
Good Mood
Daniel Kahneman
Ease
Feels Good
Feels Effortless

67. Feeling confident?
It’s not a good sign.

68. You might have a bad case of
Dunning-Kruger.
Flickr/ Bekah Stargazing

69. Our access to
data has
evolved, our
brains haven’t.

70. Data doesn’t
change
minds.

72. Math is
hard.
Stories are
easy.

73. We have to
account for
more than
we know.

74. The most
measurable
data is not
the most
valuable.

75. Obviously,
what I can
count should
count more.
Flickr/gabbahey

76. Know your
reason.
Flickr/johnwiechecki

77. What and Why
Flickr/johnwiechecki

78. luckyironfish.com