In German there’s a saying “Wer misst, misst Mist.”
“If you measure, you measure garbage.”
The point here is that measurements often don’t measure the exact thing you are looking for, but something adjacent to it. And measuring the wrong thing ends up optimizing that wrong thing instead of what you really want to optimize.
In German there’s a saying “Wer misst, misst Mist.”
“If you measure, you measure garbage.”
The point here is that measurements often don’t measure the exact thing you are looking for, but something adjacent to it. And measuring the wrong thing ends up optimizing that wrong thing instead of what you really want to optimize.