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kureta@lemmy.ml 5 days agoIn 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.
Allero@lemmy.today 5 days ago
Yup, metrics kill it all
kureta@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
There was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 5 days 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.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
over fitting, but people