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On 2015-09-28 16:27:19 -0500 (-0500), Kyle Mestery wrote:
[...]
> I should note that as the previous PTL, for the most part I viewed
> stats as garbage. Keep in mind I nominated two new core reviewers
> whose stats were lowe but who are incredibly important members of
> our community [1]. I did this because they are the type of people
> to be core reviewers, and we had a long conversation on this. So,
> I agree with you, this stats thing is awful. And Stackalytics
> hasn't helped it, but made it much worse.
[...]

"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to
collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control
purposes." - Charles Goodhart, 1975

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

-- 
Jeremy Stanley