cubicgarden reviewed The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
Good points made
4 stars
Good points made well but slower going than I'd like
Paperback, 248 pages
Published April 30, 2019 by Princeton University Press.
The Tyranny of Metrics
4 stars
(3 reviews)
SocProf reviewed The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
Review of 'The Tyranny of Metrics' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
The topic is important. It is addressed rather well and covers pretty much what everyone working on those sectors has experienced. But this book could also have been written in the 1980s. There are a lot of books written in the same critical vein that take into account the rise of algorithms as part of the same processes (see Cathy O'Neill, obviously, but others as well).
But again, those of us who have experienced those developments will appreciate their treatment here.
