The Tyranny of Metrics |
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| Author:
| Muller, Jerry Z. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-17495-2 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2018 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluat
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluat