{"id":57,"date":"2015-12-07T10:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/two-s-company-three-s-a-crowd\/"},"modified":"2015-12-07T10:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:33:00","slug":"two-s-company-three-s-a-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/two-s-company-three-s-a-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Two&#8217;s company, three&#8217;s a crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Counting things is generally much easier than defining sharply the boundary between what is to be counted and what is not.\u00a0 Focus often lands on that problem late, when a decision is to be made based on (or at least informed by) the metric and a shift in the definition could change the outcome.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While more attention early is definitely better, no amount of sharpening is ever going to anticipate every variation that will arise.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why it is so important to use metrics in the context of the questions they are helping answer and the goals being sought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/04\/opinion\/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html?_r=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/04\/opinion\/how-many-mass-shootings-are-there-really.html?_r=0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting things is generally much easier than defining sharply the boundary between what is to be counted and what is not.\u00a0 Focus often lands on that problem late, when a decision is to be made based on (or at least informed by) the metric and a shift in the definition could change the outcome. \u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/2015\/12\/07\/two-s-company-three-s-a-crowd\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two&#8217;s company, three&#8217;s a crowd<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-perils-of-metrics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onionsauce.com\/mole_end\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}