ignore the code – Opinions vs. Data

If there’s one thing we should all take to heart, it’s that humans are strange: They rarely behave the way we expect (or want) them to. Test­ing often reveals issues we would never have found out by merely think­ing about a design. Con­versely, some­thing that looks wrong might actu­ally work per­fectly well.

via ignore the code – Opin­ions vs. Data. The fal­lacy with intu­itive guesses is that they are intu­itive and not based on real data most of the time. Test­ing can some­times reveal things that you wouldn’t have nor­mally guessed.

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