Jerry Muller, professor, history, had his book The Tyranny of Metrics reviewed in Inside Higher Ed.
..."The book takes us on a tour of data-driven disasters in higher education, K-12, medicine, policing, the military, business, philanthropy, and foreign aid. In all of these domains, the impact of an increased focus on metrics has been a series of unintended and mostly negative consequences."...
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