News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine. Parent comment

Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by chrisshroba on Friday February 25, 2022 @12:54PM (#30470014)
For others like me who didn't know what the McNamara Fallacy is, here's a quote from its Wikipedia Page [1]:

"The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven."

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by pvillano on Saturday February 26, 2022 @02:47PM (#30481127)
in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with using numbers and there's nothing that can't be quantified. The problem is when important metrics which are hard to turn into numbers are ignored. or, when metrics aren't reevaluated to combat over-fitting.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by zeruch on Monday February 28, 2022 @03:56AM (#30497822)
" there's nothing that can't be quantified"

That is indeed....your opinion.

[ Parent | on HN ]