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Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) by jon_richards on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:31PM (#28020064)
It’s not a computer, but it is quantified.
Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) by username90 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:25PM (#28020898)
Numbers implies you can do mathematical operations on them that makes sense.

So how would you quantify "good" or "bad"? You can't unless you also answer what "good" + "bad" should be. In psychology they just assume that mapping those onto 1 and 5 makes sense, so "good" + "bad" = 5 + 1 = 6, but that doesn't make sense since it would imply that "good" is the same as "bad" + "bad" + "bad" + "bad" + "bad". You get similar but different issues if you start including negative numbers, or if you just use relative measures and don't have a proper zero, no matter what you do numbers doesn't properly represent feelings as we know them.

Re:Past Performance is Not Indicative of Future Results (2020) by RandomLensman on Saturday July 31, 2021 @01:40PM (#28020140)
That touches on the really tricky point that some things can be quantified but not computed, so again, we don't know how that measurable representation relates to they way results are derived.