Thompson: Scaling Up Worst Practices
"You can evaluate heart surgeons on any criteria you want - just not patient survival rates! You really can’t make this up!" - Mayor Mike Bloomberg, on evaluating teachers through test scores."The most disturbing example of Campbell's Law (on why high stakes corrupt data) was reported in the New York Times ... 'An overwhelming majority of cardiologists in New York say that, in certain instances, they do not operate on patients who might benefit
