Stop in for a cup of coffee
So, my work decided that they want to consider new formulation options for one of our products.
Yesterday, I met with the Chief Scientific executive from the Board of Directors and discussed what I thought was the best approach. He asked me to put together a proposed design matrix.
I sent him the matrix I came up with today from my own thought process and found out later that he hired a computer design software company to come up with one too as a comparison.
After they took their computer output design and mine back into the software for evaluation, they found out that their design had an 85% confidence level of meaningful results while mine had a 98% confidence level.
Funny that!
I guess experience beats an algorithm this time!