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Correlation is not causation.

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"Today I wouldn't get an academic job. It's as simple as that. I don't think I would be regarded as productive enough." Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs explains how the focus on quantified indicators (number of publications, citations) harms scientific progress.

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"A strong motivation to engage in extra work and a fear of being overlooked [while remote working] has the potential to turn into over-commitment and self-exploitation, which could subsequently lead to higher levels of stress or even burnouts." - #MayDay

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"Rankings and metrics create competition, and turn us into achievement-subjects, focused on striving to overtake those we are compared with, at the expense of our individual and collective well-being." -

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Data scientists, be aware 😉👇 #quantifiedsociety #bias

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"When environmental performance is reduced to an indicator like 'kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions', other crucial environmental qualities like biodiversity are rendered virtually invisible." -

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You get what you measure. 👇

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⚠️ Correlation is not causation.

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Today's reminder 👇

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🧵 Student evaluation of teaching ratings and student learning are not (!!!) related. Source: (1/4) #AcademicTwitter #University #AcademicChatter

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Your daily reminder 👇

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Pie chart done right 👇📊

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Be aware, data scientists 😉👇

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Roses are red, Facebook's logo is blue. If you're not paying, The product is you. #ValentinesDay #Quantifiedsociety

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One way to improve an indicator.. 🙈

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When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric...👌 (Credits: @xkcd )

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On education and the possibilities of performance measurement. 👇

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One of the reasons we now live in a "Quantified Society" 👇

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"Because of the central role of evaluation and grading, it sometimes seems as if scoring points in education is more important than developing oneself, thinking critically, and finding out exactly how something works." (Quote from "The Quantified Society", available soon)

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ℹ️ Student satisfaction is not the same as teaching quality.

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"When 'environmental performance' is reduced to an indicator like kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions, other crucial environmental qualities like biodiversity are rendered virtually invisible." -

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Swiss university says that not the quantity of publications matters (measured in rankings), but the content (not evaluated in rankings). ✅ Couldn't agree more. #quantifiedsociety #indicatorism

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Rankings of universities make no sense.

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What unpopular academia opinion would get you in this situation?

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My graph of the day

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"This business of 'publish or perish' has been a catastrophe. People write things which should never have been written and which should never be printed. Nobody's interested." - Hannah Arendt #quantifiedsociety

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On performance indicator reporting frequency... 👇

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Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

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What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior "by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results." 👉

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Academics, you are more than your h-index! You are also your i10-index, g-index, altmetric score and teaching evaluations.

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“Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes.” - Simone Weil

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“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.” - Mark Twain

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Your daily reminder 👇 #education #quantifiedsociety

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The cover is ready...! 🎉👇 Follow this account for news and updates on The Quantified Society - a book on how metrics and performance measures shape and distort our society. Expected: first half of 2024! #meetmaatschappij #quantifiedsociety

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Classic 😅👇 Credits: @marketoonist .

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"The Quantified Society" 👇

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Dystopian. This coffee shop uses AI to measure the productivity of their employees & also the time spent in the shop per customer. ☕️

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Why it's problematic to reduce happiness to the level of dopamine 👇

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For a classic reference on teaching evaluations: "How to Improve Your Teaching Evaluations without Improving Your Teaching" (Neath, 1996)

How to Improve Your Teaching Evaluations without Improving Your Teaching - Ian Neath, 1996

The current increased interest in evaluating the teaching of college and university faculty has made course evaluations even more important to the careers of ac...

journals.sagepub.com

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On University Rankings 😉🙈

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Link article (Guardian, 2013):

Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system

Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'

www.theguardian.com

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"Despite science knowing for a very long time that performance-based rewards are probably not the best way to motivate employees with complex tasks, many organizations still rely on them." -

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🎼It's the mooost wonderful time of the yeaear... Did you know this "Christmas" painting by Brueghel is all about counting? It's known as "The Numbering at Bethlehem" and depicts pregnant Mary & Joseph on their way to be counted (!) in the official census of Quirinius!

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"When “environmental performance” is reduced to an indicator like kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions, other crucial environmental qualities like biodiversity are rendered virtually invisible." 👉

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"When measurement systems like student evaluations of teaching are used [..] this can lead to stress and alienation. Also, it can trigger ‘indicatorism’: behavior aimed at manipulating an indicator while losing track of the original goal." #indicatorism

The Perils of Measuring Performance, Inside and Outside Academia

Quantification can reformulate something as complex and multidimensional as teaching into a one-dimensional score. And such a score gives the possessor a sense of control and understanding. But, given

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"Performance Measurement (PM) characteristics such as fairness, subjectivity, and ease-of-use [...] have a significant impact on the outcomes that PM yields." -

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"These findings suggest that institutions focused on student learning and career success may want to abandon SET ratings as a measure of faculty's teaching effectiveness." (4/4)

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Are online reviews reliable...? Burger King ( @BurgerKing ) 🍔 Belgium is manipulating @Google Review ratings by requesting customers to give a five-star review in return for a burger, shake, or coffee. #indicatorism

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Is MDPI a predatory publisher? 👇 Spoiler: yes

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The Kindle edition of The Quantified Society is out now on Amazon! For a free sample text from the book, check out: For a short article in @BASeditors on content from the book, see: #quantifiedsociety

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"managers made use of software packages to monitor employees' activities [...] In addition, our findings indicate that both supervisors and clients became more demanding, which in various cases led to tighter, more constraining control over employees." -

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See also:

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"Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation" Source:

Student Evaluations of Teaching Encourages Poor Teaching and Contributes to Grade Inflation: A...

Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs) do not measure teaching effectiveness, and their widespread use by university administrators in decisions about faculty hiring, promotions, and merit increase...

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"The omnipresence of quantified performance information about our achievements (e.g., online likes, sport accomplishments, citations) puts us in a never-ending competition with millions of others around the globe." Link:

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For a sample text of the book "The Quantified Society", follow this link:

(PDF) The Quantified Society

PDF | Grades, step counters, KPIs, ratings, review scores: every day we attempt to make sense of the world we live in by quantifying it. Students are as... | Find, read and cite all the research you...

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Indicatorism: improving an indicator or ranking while losing the original goal out of sight.

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"Our up-to-date meta-analysis of all multisection studies revealed no significant correlations between the SET ratings and learning." (3/4)

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"Students do not learn more from professors with higher student evaluation of teaching (SET) ratings." (2/4)

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"When 'environmental performance' is reduced to an indicator like kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions, other crucial environmental qualities like biodiversity are rendered virtually invisible." Source:

Numbers Speak for Themselves, or Do They? On Performance Measurement and Its Implications - Berend...

Performance measurement systems have the potential to improve organizational outcomes, but they often come at a cost. This commentary highlights the individual,...

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The Quantified Society will become available tomorrow! Read fragment: Order: 🇪🇸: 🇳🇱: 🇩🇪: 🇫🇷: 🇬🇧: 🇮🇹:

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Moving away from quantified assessments of research quality is not enough. The scientific community should be (more) involved and trained. Link: @KDCobey in @Nature #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter @DORAssessment

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🔥 The rector of the university of Salamanca organized a citation cartel for himself. #indicatorism #academictwitter

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⚠️Comparative feedback and individual rankings may hamper relatedness, and damage trust & relationships. Source:

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Are university rankings biased? "We show that global universities’ research performance, as measured by publications in top journals, declines as the differences between their local language and English increase." @UWankings

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And see: @UWankings

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@CarrNext Here are some of the key points 👇

The puzzle of motivation

Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen...

www.ted.com

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PS the Venn diagram is from the book "The Quantified Society", which is expected in 2024. A Dutch version is already available ("De Meetmaatschappij", )

De Meetmaatschappij

Bestel nu als paperback, e-book of luisterboek.Kijkcijfers, bestsellerlijsten, KPI’s, stappen en Cito-scores: wat meten we eigenlijk niet? Een scholier is zo goed als zijn gemiddelde, een werknemer…

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@GerardoMunck @berendvdkolk Thanks for sharing!

The Quantified Society: How Our Obsession with Performance Measurement Shapes the World We Live in

www.amazon.es

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"As quantified performance measures cannot do justice to the value and contributions of individuals, they can trigger feelings of injustice, which can negatively impact employees’ mental health." -

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@GerardoMunck @berendvdkolk ¡Gracias por compartir!

The Quantified Society: How Our Obsession with Performance Measurement Shapes the World We Live in

www.amazon.es

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