EHeller comments on How to Measure Anything - Less Wrong

50 Post author: lukeprog 07 August 2013 04:05AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 05 August 2013 02:14:31PM 8 points [-]

The variables that had high information values were routinely those that the client had never measured… * The variables that clients [spent] the most time measuring were usually those with a very low (even zero) information value…

This seems very unlikely to be a coincidence. Any theories about what's going on?

Comment author: EHeller 05 August 2013 03:47:58PM 5 points [-]

in the many cases I've seen this its because (generally) things that are being collected are those things which are easiest to be collected. Often little thought was put into it, and sometimes these things were collected by accident. Generally, those things easiest to be collected offer the least insight (if its easy to collect, its already part of your existing business process).