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The inevitable weakness of metrics

There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal.

Source MIT Technology Review AI Summary Updated 2h 21m ago

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There are plenty of useful things a metric can reveal. There are even more it can obscure or corrupt. It took me well over a decade of tracking my own life in ever greater detail to fully appreciate this duality, which probably reveals something about both me and the nature of measurement. Like a lot…

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