If you don't like it when people make important decisions based on metrics because metrics can be abused, then you're really not gonna like what happens when people make important decisions without metrics.
Exactly this. They're a necessary evil and they require constant vigilance to minimize the "make what you measure" effect.
That said, in terms of games and their influence on our lives, there's only one sport I watch: football(/soccer), which the coach Jurgen Klopp described incredibly eloquently as "the most important of the least important things."
How about we make a competing metric for every metric that's being abused? Then at least there's some tension to the piece, instead of all-out paperclip manufacturing.
If you don't like it when people make important decisions based on metrics because metrics can be abused, then you're really not gonna like what happens when people make important decisions without metrics.
Exactly this. They're a necessary evil and they require constant vigilance to minimize the "make what you measure" effect.
That said, in terms of games and their influence on our lives, there's only one sport I watch: football(/soccer), which the coach Jurgen Klopp described incredibly eloquently as "the most important of the least important things."
How about we make a competing metric for every metric that's being abused? Then at least there's some tension to the piece, instead of all-out paperclip manufacturing.
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