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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 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 are simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

over fitting, but people