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This is why "you can't improve what you don't measure" bothers me. It's rare that you can condense all useful information into a number and it encourages people
by serverholic 5y ago
This is why "you can't improve what you don't measure" bothers me. It's rare that you can condense all useful information into a number and it encourages people to remove critical thinking from the equation. People come to rely on the number instead of thinking deeply about what they're doing.
- oriel 5y agoThis is basically Goodhart's law (quote from Marilyn Strathern's generalization). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law > When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure