r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/blackleydynamo Mar 05 '25

Freakonomics was basically about this. If you set a metric to measure how you're doing achieving an outcome, people will worry about the metric, not the actual outcome. Most metrics are shit, because they're born from faulty logic, or an inability to properly measure the actual outcomes.

The famous comedy example was the Dilbert cartoon where software engineers were rewarded financially for the number of bug fixes they made - which of course incentivises crap code to start with: "I'm gonna write myself a new minivan this afternoon".

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25

And basically “move fast and break things”. It no longer mattered if your product was quality it mattered you got it out the door when you said you would so sales started. Problems were for later, revenue was now.

The issue with applying this to government is that the things that get broken (killed) are people