It is disturbing that science is viewed by key decision makers at Intel as "a complicated program" that can only be used to find the next cancer drug, and so we must resort to "mumbo-jumbo" to evaluate these office space "pilots".

Science (to quote Maynard paraphrasing Popper) is "Erecting hypotheses that can be falsified and designing experiments capable of doing so".

To stretch an analogy, you may fly your plane by the seat of your pants, but don't be surprised when it comes crashing to the ground, because mumbo-jumbo doesn't have as much lift-to-weight ratio as aerodynamically designed wings.

And to stretch an analogy into puns, here is hoping I see some very positive impacts, but no crashes, thru your pilots...

-- from my blog about evaluation pilots for office alternatives..