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by wodenokoto 1902 days ago
The article seems to stop pretty early, as if something is missing.

It’s an anecdote about a government incentive to have doctors see patients within 48 hours causing doctors to refuse scheduling patients later than 48 hours in order to get the incentive bonus.

This is not an example of limits of data, but an example of perverse incentives.
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justinclift 1902 days ago
> It’s an anecdote about a government incentive to have doctors see patients within 48 hours causing doctors to refuse scheduling patients later than 48 hours in order to get the incentive bonus.

That part is probably just the first 1/8th or so of the article (rough guess). Sounds like it was cut short for you?

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jabroni_salad 1902 days ago
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

This case could be said to be creating misleading data. If the doctor's offices aren't recording appointments more than 48 hours in advance, the System is losing visibility on the total number of people who want appointments. Every office will appear to be 100% efficient even though there is effectively still an invisible waiting list.

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polytely 1902 days ago
Did you use reader mode? because I noticed that when I use firefox's reader mode it will cut off part of the article on the New Yorker site.
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Fishkins 1902 days ago
When I first opened the article in Firefox, I only saw the first two paragraphs (same as the OP). This was true whether it was in reader mode or not. I opened it in Chrome and saw the whole article.

I just tried opening it in Firefox now (a couple hours later) and I see the whole article. If I switch to reader mode I do see it's truncated about halfway through, but I think that's a separate issue from what the OP was seeing.

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wodenokoto 1902 days ago
On iOS. Initially used reader mode, but switched because it seemed cut off.

But also without reader mode I can’t see more than the NHS anecdote.

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strathmeyer 1902 days ago
We clicked on the link and were presented with two paragraphs. New Yorker articles usually don't show up correctly, I don't know why they allowed to be posted here. Acting like we don't know how to read a webpage is gaslighting.
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polytely 1902 days ago
Well that wasn't my intention at all, just a problem i encountered a few hours before I read your comment so it was fresh on my mind.
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