Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by marcosdumay 95 days ago
Well, you can't measure it, so it can't matter.
1 comments

Interesting to think about how often I'm fighting both sides of that coin.
With time, I've come to think the trouble is--as usual--there's no singular right answer, only trade-offs

Sabermetrics (Moneyball) captivated us with the idea that "gut feelings" and "stories" were inferior to raw hard data, but that same notion could also accurately be called "the McNamara fallacy"