Comment by StrangeDoctor
2 days ago
This would be difficult to apply to R&D orgs or anything seen as a typical cost center.
Also, medical facilities… you certainly could define it as profit, but that bothers me and many other people.
You could define it as patients seen, or “cured” but that incentivizes very quick but probably poor care.
You could define it as intensity of treatment or amount of care given, but you’d probably end up in a situation where 1 incredibly sick person has every doctor treating them.
You could define it as…
This is the kind of thing that pops up when you try to substitute metrics for judgment. It reminds me of the catastrophic fiscal and monetary policies that emerge from economic theories that rest on bad assumptions (like people being rational actors in an economic system) that are there to make the math work.