Let's say you are a highly-experienced professional with little to no experience in analytics. You find yourself paired with a data analyst or data scientist and are presented with some fancy modelling that makes about as much sense as quantum physics or Ancient Greek. You are clearly out of your depth but need to be able to decide whether you can back the findings and present it to senior management, or send it back for fine-tuning. You just need to be able to speak enough of their language to let them use their expertise to help you. The two common mistakes are to either entirely distrust the numbers or be possessed of a blind faith in analytics.