The McNamara Fallacy
Jonathan Cook,
Mar 02, 2022
This item is especially appropriate to education. In many circles, educational policy is defined by the mantra, "You can't manage what you can't measure." The Quantitative fallacy is the presumption that "factors other than those currently being used in quantitative metrics must either not exist or not have a significant influence on success." What should be learned is not that metrics should be refined and measurement extended, but rather, that there are some things that can't be managed, and these things matter. Via Ben Werdmüller.
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