fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 month agoYou cannot learn without failing.mander.xyzimagemessage-square67fedilinkarrow-up11.49Karrow-down17
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minus-squarekureta@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 month agoThere was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.
minus-squarewolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·edit-21 month ago“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This is why p-hacking and searching huge databases for anything with a correlation to a desirable (or undesirable) trait are simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.
minus-squareNat (she/they)@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 month agoover fitting, but people
Yup, metrics kill it all
There was a rule of sorts. All metrics become goals or something like that.
“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
This is why p-hacking and searching huge databases for anything with a correlation to a desirable (or undesirable) trait are simultaneously so prevalent, and so damaging.
over fitting, but people