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And even more likely to be systemic in anyone who is not trying to measure the world. Science works.



Actually not. People who do not try to measure what is going on make an entirely different set of systemic errors.

Which set of errors matters more depends on what you're doing. For anything resembling quality customer service, measuring tends to lead to the worse errors. But a CFO who does not reflexively try to measure stuff would be a disaster.




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