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Mate there is such a thing as too much data. From American public media, this is Marketplace tech.

I'm Megan McCarty-Korino.

Making data-driven decisions has seemingly never been easier. We've got

pull surveys, performance analytics, reviews, anecdotes on social media, all just a click away.

And yet, all these inputs aren't really helping us make better decisions.

That's according to a new study from the software company Oracle, which surveyed workers

and business leaders around the world. Seth Stevens-Dividowitz is a data scientist and author

who partnered with Oracle for the study, which they titled The Decision Dilemma.

People feel like they're drowning in data, businesses feel like they're drowning in data,

and sometimes instead of helping them make decisions, they're feeling paralyzed by all this

information, all this data. How has our reliance on data in this context sort of mounted over time?

So the other thing we found in the survey is that most people, most business leaders,

believe in the power of data. The vast majority think that data could help them make better

decisions, so that's one of the reasons they're collecting so much data. They're looking at so much

data more and more in the past few years, but it feels like too much to many people to many

businesses. Yeah, tell me more about how this is affecting decision-making by individuals and

organizations. Well, a bunch of people on our survey say that it's leading to anxiety,

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