Comment on You cannot learn without failing.

Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  In my opinion, the obsession with being able to measure everything with numbers is the cause. And those numbers are inevitably converting d to units of money, because capitalism.

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yup, metrics kill it all

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    • kureta@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.

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      • wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

        This is why p-hacking and searching huge databases for anything with a correlation to a desirable (or undesirable) trait ate simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.

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      • zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        over fitting, but people

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