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"These things are insanely noisy to the point of being meaningless." Goldstein and Spiegelhalter did a paper on league tables for organisations (e.g. schools a
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"These things are insanely noisy to the point of being meaningless."
Goldstein and Spiegelhalter did a paper on league tables for organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals) along the lines that noise in the data made the results questionable.[1]
Perhaps the idea transfers to individuals within an organisation that uses stack ranking?
[1] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/documents/statistical-issues-for-league-tables1.pdf https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/d...