{"id":388,"date":"2005-07-07T09:11:30","date_gmt":"2005-07-07T09:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.truth.posiweb.net\/notes\/?p=388"},"modified":"2005-07-07T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2005-07-07T09:11:30","slug":"the-mcnamara-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2005\/07\/07\/the-mcnamara-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"The McNamara Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured.  This is OK as far as it goes.<br \/>\nThe second step is to disregard that which can?t be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value.  This is artificial and misleading. <br \/>\nThe third step is to presume that what can?t be measured easily really isn?t important. This is blindness.<br \/>\nThe fourth step is to say that what can?t be easily measured really doesn?t exist.  This is suicide.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"right\">Charles Handy, &#8216;The Empty Raincoat&#8217;, page 219.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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?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?t be measured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-6g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}