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Bad data : why we measure the wrong things and often miss the metrics that matter / Peter Schryvers.

Schryvers, Peter, 1983- (author.).

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  • ISBN: 9781633885905 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xxiii, 323 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : Prometheus Books, [2020]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Teaching to the test: Goodhart's Law and the paradox of metrics -- The ins and outs: the logic model and program evaluation -- The long and short of it: intertemporal problems and undervaluing time -- The problem of per: denominator errors -- The forest and the trees: simplifying complex systems -- Apples and oranges: ignoring differing qualities -- Not everything that can be counted counts: the lamppost problem -- Not everything that counts can be counted: measuring what matters -- The measure of metrics -- Gateways not yardsticks.

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Subject: Performance > Measurement.
Quantitative research > Evaluation.

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