Editing Metrics

{{comic
	| number    = 6823
	| date      = July 2, 2023
	| title     = metrics
	| name      = Metrics
	| image     = 1688311442-20230702.png
	| votey     = 168831150220230702after.png
	| titletext = The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research.
}}
==Explanation==
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==Transcript==
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:[Describe panel here]
:How social science metrics work:
:Step 1: Some victorian guy comes up with an ad hoc test.
:Step 2: The method, being the only one available, is handed to young researchers.
:It's not a perfect measure but it'll work until we know more.
:Try using viscount fitzjibble's protocol. It's the best we have so far.
:Step 3: The method proliferates asits initial ad hoc nature is forgotten.
:Step 4: The method becomes entrenched.
:You didn't run a vfp? Christ jesus can you even spell science?
:Good data but you need to run viscount fitzjibble's protocol to be consistent with the literature.
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:Step 5: After a series of failures, new researchers call the method into question.
:Step 6: It is too late. The method is more powerful than the scientists.
:All hail the method.
:And in fact fitzjibble never intended it to be a permanent method. Who woulda thought?
:None of us believe in it, but none of us will fund projects that don't use it.
:Shhh! Vfp is listening! Vfp hears all!
:But but why?
:Caption: smbc-comics.com
==Votey Transcript==
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:[Describe panel here]
:(the real fun starts when it leaks into policy discussions)
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