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10% isn't that bad as long as you continue the programs that were found to succeed and stop the programs that were found to fail. Come up with 10 intelligent-sounding ideas, obtain expert endorsements, do 10 randomized controlled trials, get 1 significant improvement. Then repeat.
Unfortunately, governments are really bad at doing this.
True, but that doesn't mean we're laboring in the dark. It just means we've got our eyes closed.
Unfortunately, the people involved have an incentive to keep them closed.
I don't think that's really relevant to the original quote.