Re:The Uselessness of Phenylephrine
by AussieWog93 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @06:07PM
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>Risk adjusted scoring is entirely viable in this age of data science
It's just not unviable, I don't think it's even possible. As soon as a metric becomes tracked, people are incentivized to game it.
From my own experience as a very high-volume eBay seller, mandating a certain return rate led us to simply discourage customers from using the (convenient, well-designed) integrated returns systems. Mandating that only a tiny fraction of a percentage of items can be cancelled due to being out of stock leads to sellers sending either the wrong item or a fake tracking number (this gets us all the time on AliExpress).
If data-driven software companies can't handle it for something as simple as eCommerce, I have no idea how the medical industry is supposed to get it right.
It's just not unviable, I don't think it's even possible. As soon as a metric becomes tracked, people are incentivized to game it.
From my own experience as a very high-volume eBay seller, mandating a certain return rate led us to simply discourage customers from using the (convenient, well-designed) integrated returns systems. Mandating that only a tiny fraction of a percentage of items can be cancelled due to being out of stock leads to sellers sending either the wrong item or a fake tracking number (this gets us all the time on AliExpress).
If data-driven software companies can't handle it for something as simple as eCommerce, I have no idea how the medical industry is supposed to get it right.