At the company where my sister works, there is a group of analysts with the task to estimate future trends. The manager of that group had a problem measuring the performance of his employees. How do you measure the quality of predictions?
The solution was simple: he uses the number of written pages. The more pages, the better the analyst.
The best in the group managed to produce 700 pages of estimations in one week. So far no one has managed to read more than the first half of the first page, because it is so boring and incomprehensible, but his manager has very good hope that they one day will be able to use the data for something.
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The number of written pages depends on the font size, which quickly can be manipulated in one way or other. To solve this, one could require the workers to print the estimations out every week, and then to measure the output in kilograms.
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