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That's extremely context specific. You can imagine something like in social sciences where people have quite finely tuned but subjective personal awareness of h
by sacrosancty 4y ago
That's extremely context specific. You can imagine something like in social sciences where people have quite finely tuned but subjective personal awareness of human behavior and some data makes a coarse but objective measurement of it. It's hard for the data to be as "accurate" as the personal experience, so it can easily be wrong. But "it was colder when I was a kid" vs temperature measurements is the other way around.
- naniwaduni 4y agoI mean, we're looking at an example where the anecdotes and data are fairly in agreement. But the point is that when you encounter a metric that's at odds with recurrent anecdotes, you should strongly consider that you aren't measuring the right thing. You can get incredibly accurate measurements of a doorframe's height but if people keep telling you they're having trouble getting packages in, it might just be that they don't fit the width.
- maximus-decimus 4y agoOn the flip side, if you change metrics until you get one that says what you want, do your metrics really provide any value?