IQ
Very good article, though we need some measuring yardsticks to measure everything and everyone for various purposes, these IQ, Mensa etc are some of the measurements that have been infused with an overdose of aura of omniscience or pansophism.
When measurements with aura move towards profiling or labeling , they are susceptible to create complexes which result in unintended consequences , some of which may be psychologically and emotionally unsettling a few and may not be socially preferable.
In fact, as an irony the world progresses either marginally or drastically through inventors, real research scholars, active social engineering persons [dominated mostly by political leaders], ideas generators, ideology peddlers or those who search and hunt to know, to understand, to learn more and make life better ,happier and peaceful.
Overall progress happens not necessarily through those with high IQ [though they are also great contributors] but through the contributions of a large team eco-system creators who create eco-systems of socio-psychological, socio-cultural, socio-economic harmony , progress and synergy from various domains starting from passive thinkers to technology providers as well as those involved in enhancing the others spiritual and esoteric aspirations.
There are so many people, events, things that are involved in the nuanced nudges and metamorphosis that as aspects of evolution lead towards sophistication in the path of civilization.
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
― Ram Dass
― Ram Dass
Even in the arena of knowledge and learning the following people enhance the domain, mainly classified as epistemophile [one who has a love of knowledge; specifically, excessive striving for or preoccupation with knowledge],philosophile [Similar, but more of an emphasis on learning and philosophy], sophophile [Similar, but with more of an emphasis on gaining wisdom].
On 3rd August I tweeted about measurement as follows:-
Modern macro economics is too complex to move ahead with orthodox principles and measurements.
However, measurements as reference points are necessary but they must be based on frank facts on ground and not underfitting* to present any cozy picture.
Then, based on proper measurements fine tuning of financial policies with consistency in policy but flexibility in functional aspects [factoring in global dynamics of economic trends, trade wars and turbulences] are essential.
First honest and purely economic development oriented outcome based measurement is necessary. This exercise must also prioritize attention on the areas which can contribute to economic development be it easing up investments; creating more liquidity; encouraging more employment generating activities/industrie; increasing the consumer base by reduction of tax etc.
Peter Drucker, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”
W. Edwards Deming, “What gets measured gets done.”
Dr. H. James Harrington has been involved in quality and performance improvement projects since the 1950s. He summarizes well what this lesson is all about. “Measurement is the first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can’t measure something, you can’t understand it. If you can’t understand it, you can’t control it. If you can’t control it, you can’t improve it.”
John Cameron, “What gets measured gets attention. I’m not so sure that it can be said what matters can’t be measured. The statement itself is just too subjective and even having said that there may be reflective indicators that can be measured. OCTOBER 9, 2016 AT 12:28 AM”
“All metrics of scientific evaluation are bound to be abused. Goodhart's law (named after the British economist who may have been the first to announce it) states that when a feature of the economy is picked as an indicator of the economy, then it inexorably ceases to function as that indicator because people start to game it.”
“The law is richly illustrated in the 2018 book The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller.[8] An enunciation of the law preceding both Goodhart's and Campbell's works is due to Jerome R. Ravetz. In his 1971 Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems, Ravetz discusses how measurement systems can be gamed. For Ravetz, when the goals of a task are complex, sophisticated, or subtle, then crude systems of measurements can be played exactly by those persons possessing the skills to execute the tasks properly, who thus manage to achieve their own goals to the detriment of those assigned.”
*Underfitting [when a statistical model cannot adequately capture the underlying structure of the data. An underfitted model is a model where some parameters or terms that would appear in a correctly specified model are missing. Underfitting would occur, for example, when fitting a linear model to non-linear data. Such a model will tend to have poor predictive performance].
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