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That's like a textbook McNamara fallacy - Y is what we care about, but X is what we can measure, so what matters is improving X even if it means we diminish Y.
by lmm 1y ago
That's like a textbook McNamara fallacy - Y is what we care about, but X is what we can measure, so what matters is improving X even if it means we diminish Y.
- chrisco255 1y agoIf you can't quantify Y you can't even prove Y is diminishing. What a bogus fallacy.
- lmm 1y ago> If you can't quantify Y you can't even prove Y is diminishing Indeed. But what matters is whether Y is diminishing, not what's easy for you to prove. The world is not obliged to make the important things easy to measure, and it generally doesn't.