Bad data why we measure the wrong things and often miss the metrics that matter
"Big data is often touted as the key to understanding almost every aspect of contemporary life. This critique of "information hubris" shows that even more important than data is finding the right metrics to evaluate it. The author, an expert in environmental design and city planning,...
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Guilford, Connecticut
Prometheus Books,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Teaching to the test : Goodhart's Law and the paradox of metrics
- The ins and outs : the logic model and program evaluation
- The long and short of it : intertemporal problems and undervaluing time
- The problem of per : denominator errors
- The forest and the trees : simplifying complex systems
- Apples and oranges : ignoring differing qualities
- Not everything that can be counted counts : the lamppost problem
- Not everything that counts can be counted : measuring what matters
- The measure of metrics
- Gateways not yardsticks.