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blogospheroid: When you pick a metric of success, countries will game it by doing well on that metric, yet not achieving what is really meant by success. A good example would be the Soviet Union, whose leaders constantly made sure they did well by the metrics, yet were actually far from successful.
taw: Not true -- the Soviet Union did about average by those metrics, so they had about average success.
me: *falls out of chair*
Key question: are the metrics optimized by the Soviet Union identical to the metrics suggested to evaluate the success of the Soviet Union?