<story><title>Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/meet-the-worst-8th-grade-math-teacher-in-nyc/2012/05/15/gIQArmlbSU_blog.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterhunt</author><text>I&apos;m surprised to see so many HNers come out against standardized testing. Sure, it&apos;s imperfect and this teacher got screwed, but how are administrators supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam educators for making decisions based on standardized test scores.&lt;p&gt;Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adrianhoward</author><text>I&apos;m surprised to see so many HNers come out against counting lines of code. Sure, it&apos;s imperfect and this developer got screwed, but how are managers supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam managers for making decisions based on line code counts.</text></comment>
<story><title>Meet the ‘worst’ 8th grade math teacher in NYC</title><url>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/meet-the-worst-8th-grade-math-teacher-in-nyc/2012/05/15/gIQArmlbSU_blog.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peterhunt</author><text>I&apos;m surprised to see so many HNers come out against standardized testing. Sure, it&apos;s imperfect and this teacher got screwed, but how are administrators supposed to make informed, data-driven decisions on what the right course of action is? Many of us extol the virtues of A/B testing landing page designs and gathering deep metrics and analytics but turn around and slam educators for making decisions based on standardized test scores.&lt;p&gt;Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Natsu</author><text>Good data is helpful.  Bad data is &lt;i&gt;worse than useless&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;You&apos;re actually better off with no information than with bad information.</text></comment>