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You're making the same mistake of conflating 'good' with 'scores high on a measure'.
by yxwvut 5y ago
You're making the same mistake of conflating 'good' with 'scores high on a measure'.
- kbelder 5y agoWhat is something that you can be demonstrably good at, that is immeasurable?
- yxwvut 5y agoVirtually everything even slightly abstracted from directly quantifiable tasks: sporting skill, driving skill, intelligence, etc. None of those are measurable without significant confounding or a 'dumbing down' to some adjacent task (that still probably suffers from some degree of confounding via 'teaching to the test'). Sport performance depends on your cohort, driving accident rates depend on your environment, intelligence tests have a learned component, etc. Trying to develop a system that allows rank-ordering of ability along an axis that isn't subject to influence from an irrelevant external factor is impossible.
- dTal 5y agoIt kinda sounds like you're using "abstracted" to mean "poorly defined".