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Neither extensive experience in a field nor access to exhaustive industry data by itself,establishes an executive's ability to make appropriate decisions. Both are required simultaneously since experience can blind one to logical conclusions drawn from data, and exhaustive data is almost always , by definition, a way of measuring past trends that may or may not continue.
If the facts stated in the passage above are true ,a proper test of an executive's ability to make appropriate decisions is its ability to
A. use knowledge gained from experience to determine which trends are likely to continue.
B. Use knowledge gained from experience to direct data-collective efforts
C. amass data that competitors are not collecting so that knowledge gained from experience can be set aside .
D. Establish technical infrastructure to collect data that supports the conclusions drawn from extensive experience.
E. hire middle managers who can maintain the appropriate balance between experience-based and data-based decision-making.
Please let me know what is the correct answer and why is it correct,along with justification.
Neither extensive experience in a field nor access to exhaustive industry data by itself,establishes an executive's ability to make appropriate decisions. Both are required simultaneously since experience can blind one to logical conclusions drawn from data, and exhaustive data is almost always , by definition, a way of measuring past trends that may or may not continue.
If the facts stated in the passage above are true ,a proper test of an executive's ability to make appropriate decisions is its ability to
A. use knowledge gained from experience to determine which trends are likely to continue.
B. Use knowledge gained from experience to direct data-collective efforts
C. amass data that competitors are not collecting so that knowledge gained from experience can be set aside .
D. Establish technical infrastructure to collect data that supports the conclusions drawn from extensive experience.
E. hire middle managers who can maintain the appropriate balance between experience-based and data-based decision-making.
Please let me know what is the correct answer and why is it correct,along with justification.
