[kreyenborgi]

    > The choice of a 5-year period seems to be because of data availability

Also known as "looking for the keys under the lamp-post" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect (which links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy which I hadn't heard of before, but which seems to fit very well here too).

    > An algorithmic absurdity: cancer improves survival
    > [...] 
    > algorithmic absurdity, something that would 
    > seem obviously wrong to a person based on common sense.

A useful term!

> optimize “quality-adjusted” life years

https://repaer.earth/ was posted on HN recently as an extreme example of this hehe