I totally agree with you, there are times when the data just shows the obvious, it's like when people ask me the difference between accounting and management, I tell them, accounting is a thermometer, it just tells you what the temperature is, it doesn't go further than that, it just tells you the obvious, it wouldn't say why the temperature i s the way it is or change it.

But management, tells you what the temperature is and does what it does to change it. It is a thermostat.

That's how data is, it's just a thermometer not a thermostat.