{"id":5122,"date":"2022-07-22T11:48:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=5122"},"modified":"2022-07-22T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T09:48:23","slug":"mcnamara-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2022\/07\/22\/mcnamara-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"McNamara Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/McNamara_fallacy\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can&#8217;t be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can&#8217;t be measured easily really isn&#8217;t important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can&#8217;t be easily measured really doesn&#8217;t exist. This is suicide.<\/p><cite>Daniel Yankelovich, &#8220;Corporate Priorities: A continuing study of the new demands on business&#8221; (1972).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can&#8217;t be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2022\/07\/22\/mcnamara-fallacy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McNamara Fallacy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5123,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5122\/revisions\/5123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}