Data & Metrics
Measurement design: what you measure becomes what people do
Choosing indicators is not a technical decision. It determines behaviour, whether or not that was intended.
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Data & Metrics
Research Landscape
Setting priorities: what a system can build is narrower than what it could study
Every research system must choose. The failure mode is choosing implicitly, by funding whatever is proposed.
Research Landscape
Reading a research system: growth figures describe less than they seem to
Output figures for a growing research system are among the most cited and least interpretable numbers in the field.