YAS! Thank you for your rec of "Most Likely to Succeed," which really cemented this point for me. "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
Re: evaluation in K-12... protecting the ability to rank-order kids based on [what feels like] very high-precision quantitative data leads people to make arguments way beneath their cognitive pay grade about what learning is & what bubble sheets can possibly measurehttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1136847184027013120 …
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That quote seems rather supernatural to me. If something counts that can’t be counted how are you able to explain to me it’s benefits at all?
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All of this is very deeply ingrained though. You're hitting against people's trained need for numbers and precise numbers at that! At some level we've been trained to need the "quantified" to make any decisions
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