If there was a "Manifesto for Empirical Software Development", what might it advocate?

- Data over anecdotes?
- Experiments over debates?
- Skepticism over social proof?
- Hypotheses over opinions?
- Weight of evidence over follower counts?
- Efficacy over "That's how we've always done it"?

+1 pragmatism over dogmatism
@mmirwaldt Except that in software development "pragmatism" is often secret code for not doing something at all