> I get that its immeasurably frustrating for a person to be distilled into performance metrics, but how else can we measure one's impact?
I think it may also be useful to talk about the reliability and validity of all the things that are measured.
Also, how useful is this stuff among the different fields? The article talks about gig workers and manufacturers. Would be interesting if these metrics were applied rigorously to other fields like politicians, talk show pundits, and forecasters.
No, no, this rigorious ratings are for lower class endavours.
Higher classes get a title, which is a one off rubber stamp of quality and then will never again be judged on performance standing alone. Dr. Senior. Dipl. Ing.
Except by there peers, who will lower a silk of omerta over "internal" affairs like a lack of quality in work.
Of course, between these professions, there are meta-power struggles, which will play out, in a court- stylized fashion, a eternal ritualized war between castes like "management" and "technical execution".
Metrics, as demanded by one caste, are worthless, as they rely on a working interface provided by the oppossition or in depth knowledge, making a allegiance two too factions necessary.
Thus all that remains of them is a ritualized insistence, to compensate for the creeping feeling of a lack of controll. For those who need them, can not get them and be certain they are accurate.
Making metrics, actually - a flag of truce.
I think it may also be useful to talk about the reliability and validity of all the things that are measured.
Also, how useful is this stuff among the different fields? The article talks about gig workers and manufacturers. Would be interesting if these metrics were applied rigorously to other fields like politicians, talk show pundits, and forecasters.