[gricardo99]

Indeed, some SCM metrics could be used to reach exactly the wrong conclusion: lines-of-code add/removed.

  Oh my gosh!  Jonny coder over there has been deleting, deleting! our code.  Fire him immediately!  

Many years ago there was a discussion on HN about that same topic[1] (And since then many more I'm sure).

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10734815

[_tom_]

Dilbert is relevant: https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Write%20Minivan

Metrics are frequently inaccurate and easy to game.

[xsmasher]

A decade earlier, this story at Apple

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

[opinion-is-bad]

Simpson’s Paradox takes many forms. If your sampling or measurement criteria are wrong, even subtlety, then the results are nonsense without anyone knowing. Practicing statistics in an area for which you are not an expert is almost always a bad idea.

[croes]

Maybe that's the reason why programmer using spaces instead of tabs earn more money. They get payed by file size