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In the movie “Apollo 13,” when it is clear that the astronauts are in serious trouble, flight director Gene Kranz in Houston tells his team, “Let’s work the problem, people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing.”
This warning about the dangers of guesswork puts into stark relief the importance of grounding critical and sometimes lifesaving decisions on facts and data. Congress got the message. In 2016, to help make sure that policymakers in the federal government act on the best available evidence, Congress created the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking to study and develop a strategy for strengthening the government’s evidence-building and policymaking efforts. A year later, the commission submitted its report to the president, the speaker of the House, and the president of the Senate. The commission made numerous recommendations to strengthen federal evidence-building capacity including developing learning agendas, or a set of research questions and strateg