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Yup, metrics kill it all
There was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.
“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.
over fitting, but people
kureta@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
There was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months ago
over fitting, but people