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Date: 2013-04-16 07:02 pm (UTC)As someone who has worked on data analysis that affected real people's lives (postal rates and budget analysis) I wince in sympathy at making an error.
However, I'm now a programmer, and we QA stuff before releasing it. And I would think that before you drew a conclusion that would make so many people suffer, you'd double check it.
So what that tells me is that there's a real lack of empathy in people who are working on policy.