Medicine and the McNamara Fallacy¶
O'Mahony, S. (2017). Medicine and the McNamara Fallacy. Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 47(3), 281-287.
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Mechanisms¶
- Composition-vs-Transformation Dashboard
- Its failure mode is that a clean chart invites treating the mathematical split as causal proof and acting on what is quantified while ignoring what is not — the McNamara fallacy, where the measurable is elevated and the unmeasured is dismissed.
This sourceDefines the McNamara fallacy as over-reliance on metrics that treats what cannot be measured as unimportant.
- Its failure mode is that a clean chart invites treating the mathematical split as causal proof and acting on what is quantified while ignoring what is not — the McNamara fallacy, where the measurable is elevated and the unmeasured is dismissed.
- Viewpoint Presence Dashboard
- The McNamara fallacy — treating what is easily measured as what matters — is the dashboard's occupational hazard.
This sourceDefines the McNamara fallacy as over-reliance on metrics that treats the unmeasured as unimportant.
- The McNamara fallacy — treating what is easily measured as what matters — is the dashboard's occupational hazard.
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