ABSTRACT
This chapter provides stories to help people reframe how their intuition and reasoning work together, not against each other. It was a legendary battle of the scholars. In one corner was Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who championed the power of reasoning to overturn predictable errors in human judgement. The story of Kahneman and Klein’s unlikely collaboration could be a message about how people think about data use in schools: making decisions based on data and making decisions based on intuition aren’t opposing approaches. Spending time at the Strategic Data Project was like going to Hogwarts, except instead of learning magic with wizards the author got to learn analysis skills with education data scientists. A Venn diagram with “intuition” on the left circle, “data” in the right circle, and the text “Practical Data Use: Use intuition to interpret data.
