> I have only heard “show me the data” when someone wants someone else to support a claim.
I've heard it a lot in situations where somebody is demanding a level of rigor that they themselves do not live up to. This is usually soon after they have framed the conversation around a solution that they want to pursue that also lacks any supporting data. That is to say, being data driven is on net good but it can also just be a thinly veiled appeal to status quo bias (which is itself not a terrible heuristic) or "highest-paid-person-in-the-room" bias.
I am not talking about in the instance of claim verification. I have seen a number of instances where a leader just wants to see data. Not any specific data, just all of the data. There is a belief that data can solve problems if only they had enough of it.
I've heard it a lot in situations where somebody is demanding a level of rigor that they themselves do not live up to. This is usually soon after they have framed the conversation around a solution that they want to pursue that also lacks any supporting data. That is to say, being data driven is on net good but it can also just be a thinly veiled appeal to status quo bias (which is itself not a terrible heuristic) or "highest-paid-person-in-the-room" bias.