Any one number isn't going to properly measure a complex system. Even if we did have a good measure, and we make it a target it improve, it stops being a good measure, because the powerful find it easier to play with the numbers than to actually improve things.
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Date: 2023-Aug-07, Monday 11:51 pm (UTC)Any one number isn't going to properly measure a complex system. Even if we did have a good measure, and we make it a target it improve, it stops being a good measure, because the powerful find it easier to play with the numbers than to actually improve things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law