Jerry Z. Muller

Using metrics in the wrong situation or with the wrong methods or variables can be bad, and there are some good points here, but man is it boring. Plus he cites Scott Atlas, the "let coronavirus spread to cause herd immunity" guy as an expert - just laughable.

The topic is important. It is addressed rather well and covers pretty much what everyone working on those sectors has experienced. But this book could also have been written in the 1980s. There are a lot of books written in the same critical vein that take into account the rise of algorithms as part of the same processes (see Cathy O'Neill, obviously, but others as well).

But again, those of us who have experienced those developments will appreciate their treatment here.

Good points, tediously made.