data phobic
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Tending to avoid using data in decision-making; preferring intuition, tradition, or authority to data-based decisions.
Example Sentences
- "That may not be a welcome suggestion; many proponents of data-driven instruction will swear that teachers are historically "data phobic.""
- "I think people in our field are a bit data phobic. They are not trained to work with it. They are not trained to use it and interpret it."
- "Many people are data phobic and unwilling to engage with data to make decisions."
Inflected Forms
more data phobic (comparative)
most data phobic (superlative)
data-phobic (alternative)
dataphobic (alternative)