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> To have an over-reliance on metrics and refusing to acknowledge that metrics are proxies and considering the nuances that they were explicitly trained to look
by pseudalopex 3y ago
> To have an over-reliance on metrics and refusing to acknowledge that metrics are proxies and considering the nuances that they were explicitly trained to look for and is what meaningfully distinguishes them from less experienced people. I've been trying to coin the term Goodhart's Hell to describe this more general phenomena because I think it is a fairly apt and concise description.
McNamara fallacy or quantitative fallacy.[1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy