The Problem of Quantification and the Reduction of Quality to Number: How Measurement Destroys What It Claims to Capture
How Satirists Expose the Violence of Turning Everything Into Metrics
By the Numbers: How Quantification Reduces Complex Reality to Simple CountsQuantification appears scientific: converting experience to measurable data. Yet quantifying suffering eliminates suffering as experience; measuring markets abstracts from actual exchange; crime statistics replace human impact. Satire treating numeric recommendations seriously reveals how measurement categories destroy what they claim to capture.SOURCE