Comment on Historians never talk about the "good old days".
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Historians don’t talk about “good” or “bad” unless there’s some unambiguous measure in the historical context.
Comment on Historians never talk about the "good old days".
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Historians don’t talk about “good” or “bad” unless there’s some unambiguous measure in the historical context.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Santa should publish previous years’ nice and naughty lists for historical reference
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah—see Goodhart’s law (When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure).
As soon as Santa published his lists, people would start figuring out ways to game it.
ieGod@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Management (mis)using kpi is a classic example.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is so true.
When I worked at a cell phone store, we had an accessory take rate (ATR) target. The goal was to sell 3-5 accessories for every phone sold. (The accessories had much more profit. Compared to the phones that were sold at a loss with a contract) We would sling cheap screen protectors and clearance items that were only a few bucks to crank that number up without actually getting the customers to spend more money.
They caught on and changed it to Accessory revenue per phone, and suddenly the cheap junk quit moving and we’d only have to get one person per day to buy a Bluetooth speaker to hit target.
200ok@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
What gets rewarded gets done
usrtrv@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Doesn’t this apply to most religions?
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
There isn’t one single concrete list of good/bad deeds and how many points each one is tbf.
guy@piefed.social 1 day ago
Maybe not, it’s a thing within global governance.
You whip out the HDI or Gini coefficient and suddenly countries scramble to increase in its rankings