[ it's exactly the same on bixing's end. ]

Doesn't interpreting the data help you make observations? And besides, that depends on what you quantify as data. It doesn't always have to be numbers, when it could be the observations themselves. [ a pause, and he smiles, a familiarity to this - there's some nostalgia to an old, old experiment indeed. ]

Then again, you're not wrong - maybe that's why a balance of both is important.