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Re:'Ray, This Is a Religion' How the largest hedge fund lost... by thumbsup-_- on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @07:25PM (#38185130)
This is classic example of if you give people a metric (that is meant to be a condensation of things that truly matter) based on which they are evaluated it, they will just start optimizing for and gaming that metric instead of focusing on things that truly matter.
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Re:'Ray, This Is a Religion' How the largest hedge fund lost... by vintermann on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:34AM (#38190073)
I don't think there ever was a time this metric was good.
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