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Am I missing something? It seems like "adoption speed" really isn't something you want to over optimize. The whole point is to match abandoned animals with sui

• singron 7y ago
  They probably don't have a way to measure that reliably, and adoption speed might make more sense to their bottom line.
• xiphias2 7y ago
  It looks like the shelter has limited capacity, and too many dogs to be taken care of, therefore the faster dogs are adopted, the less need to be euthanized. Also what you are writing are extremely sparse and weak signals compared to adoption speed.
• TrackerFF 7y ago
  It's a classic optimization problem. With high speed, but poor suitability, animals are bound to return. With low speed, but good suitability, there's low return rate - but slow turnover, which leads to overcrowding and rejection of new animals. Like in business and tech, you want a high as posible throughput / inventory turnover rate - but obviously with constraints.
• jeffshek 7y ago
  Adoption speed is probably the only proxy that could be used. Measuring quality of pet life in suitable homes is rarely collected. I'm not even certain of how that could be objectively measured for children, let alone pets.