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It's pretty straightforward to quantify how good a football defensive team is. > We had 5 sacks, 3 interceptions, and limited the opposing offense to 200yards
by jackpirate 7y ago
It's pretty straightforward to quantify how good a football defensive team is.
> We had 5 sacks, 3 interceptions, and limited the opposing offense to 200yards gained.
Is obviously better than
> We had 0 sacks, 0 interceptions, and the opposing offense took 400 yards.
Even if in both games the opposing offense scored the same number of points.
- irishcoffee 7y agoI agree, it's not a perfect analogy. I think the point stands.
- frankbreetz 7y agoI think his point is it possible to quantify what the NSA does and not reveal anything classified. Similar to how you can quantify how good a football defense is even if you don't know every play, or anything about their strategies, who is on there team, how many players were on the field.
- irishcoffee 7y agoAre there many/any government agencies that quantify things to validate their existence?
- frankbreetz 7y agoSchools have tests. I get a newsletter from my local government a few times a year that says how they are spending my money, especially if they are pushing for a levy. Any program that is in jeopardy of losing funding publishing some sort of "this is why you should keep giving us money" like NASA or an arts program. For example: https://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html
- acct1771 7y agoI think the point is, it's your/our fucking money, and they should be.
- gjs278 7y agoyeah except you can prove that by the watching the game. the NSA can't prove they prevented anything. they could just make it all up.