Over the last few months, Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino keep trying to claim that exTwitter is actually growing and more used than ever. Yaccarino has talked about “largest usage days” without defi…
Musk data scientists be like: Sir, average user daily time has increased by 300%! ignores that 90% of accounts are gone and the only ones left are unemployed 40 year old redcaps who keep talking about owning everyone now
First rule for any data scientist working under Musk…
Find numbers that make him happy. Hide/deprioritize numbers that don’t make him happy.
Else you will get fired.
Musk data scientists be like: Sir, average user daily time has increased by 300%! ignores that 90% of accounts are gone and the only ones left are unemployed 40 year old redcaps who keep talking about owning everyone now
Where have I seen this pattern before…?
Oh, right! The mass famine of the Great Leap Forward was caused by exactly this kind of thing! But … I’ve seen this pattern elsewhere. Let me think…
Oh, right! Literally every medium- to large-sized corporate entity I’ve ever worked in!
There’s a reason why I call corporate thinking “corporate communism”.