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Re:Blizzard fires WoW Classic lead after he protests employe... by 2b3a51 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @06:28AM (#34502288)
"These things are insanely noisy to the point of being meaningless."

Goldstein and Spiegelhalter did a paper on league tables for organisations (e.g. schools and hospitals) along the lines that noise in the data made the results questionable.[1]

Perhaps the idea transfers to individuals within an organisation that uses stack ranking?

[1] https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/cmm/migrated/d...

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