I really do feel that this is one of the most underrated yet pervasive problems of the 21st century.
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Across the board as a culture we’re enamored by simple measures that give us the false comfort of knowledge, control and progress. To our detriment. Lines of code, citations, standardized test scores, GDP- the list is endless.https://twitter.com/ilyaraz2/status/1171088480417378304 …
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I suppose metrics are the consequence of an increase in choice. Today everyone sends and receives hundreds of requests, applications, offers. The only way to manage this amount while still being ‘fair’ is a simple metric that everyone can understand and quickly calculate.
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1/ I think you’re right about the underlying driving force- an attempt to cope with complexity. But I don’t think it’s working in a lot of cases. Not just suboptimal but worse- we think we’re helping things when we’re actually making them worse.
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Vanity Metrics.
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Citation count can be a useful (albeit noisy) metric. I suspect that if you normalised for time and plotted citation count against some kind of god-truth quality metric you'd find a correlation. Everyone worries about paper counts because their jobs depend on worrying about them
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