It’s easy to generate tons of metrics, what’s hard is generating a relatively small list that does the job. If you are too lazy to contribute to the discussion, fine. But contributing just pedantic remarks is a waste of everyone’s time.
The job was, evaluate a presidency. What metrics would you, as an intelligent person, use to evaluate a presidency. How much simpler can I make it? I didn’t ask you to read my mind or anything like that.
What metrics would you, as an intelligent person, use to evaluate a presidency.
My metrics are likely to be quite different from yours since I expect to have axes of evaluation which do no match yours.
A good starting point is recalling that POTUS is not a king and his power is quite constrained. For example, he doesn’t get to control the budget. Judging a POTUS on, say, unemployment, is silly because he just doesn’t have levers to move it. In a similar way, attributing shifts in culture wars to POTUS isn’t all that wise either.
My metrics are likely to be quite different from yours
And that’s fine! If everyone here gave me a list of 5-10 metrics instead of pedantic responses, I’d be able to choose a few I like, and boom, problem solved.
For the love of… problem solved = the problem I asked for people to help me solve. I.e. finding metrics. If you don’t want to help, fine. But as I said, being inane in attempt to appear smart is just stupid, counterproductive and frankly annoying.
Look, someone asks for your help with something. There are two legitimate responses: a) you actually help them achieve their goal or b) you say, “sorry, not my problem”. Your response is to be pedantic about the question itself. What good does that do?
I guess I can read, kinda-sorta. How about you? I answered:
and y’know, I’m a bit lazy to type it all up...
It’s easy to generate tons of metrics, what’s hard is generating a relatively small list that does the job. If you are too lazy to contribute to the discussion, fine. But contributing just pedantic remarks is a waste of everyone’s time.
And since, as I’ve pointed out, you failed to specify the job, the task changes from hard to impossible.
But I don’t know if it was a waste of everyone’s time. Your responses were… illuminating.
The job was, evaluate a presidency. What metrics would you, as an intelligent person, use to evaluate a presidency. How much simpler can I make it? I didn’t ask you to read my mind or anything like that.
My metrics are likely to be quite different from yours since I expect to have axes of evaluation which do no match yours.
A good starting point is recalling that POTUS is not a king and his power is quite constrained. For example, he doesn’t get to control the budget. Judging a POTUS on, say, unemployment, is silly because he just doesn’t have levers to move it. In a similar way, attributing shifts in culture wars to POTUS isn’t all that wise either.
And that’s fine! If everyone here gave me a list of 5-10 metrics instead of pedantic responses, I’d be able to choose a few I like, and boom, problem solved.
A problem? Which problem? I don’t have a problem.
Are you, by any chance, upset that people didn’t hop to solving your problem?
For the love of… problem solved = the problem I asked for people to help me solve. I.e. finding metrics. If you don’t want to help, fine. But as I said, being inane in attempt to appear smart is just stupid, counterproductive and frankly annoying.
Look, someone asks for your help with something. There are two legitimate responses: a) you actually help them achieve their goal or b) you say, “sorry, not my problem”. Your response is to be pedantic about the question itself. What good does that do?
Nope. There are more, e.g.
(c) You misunderstand your problem, it’s actually this
(d) Your problem is not solvable because of that
(e) Solving this problem will not help you (achieve a more terminal goal)
(f) the problem was not correctly conveyed, leading to someone trying to solve the one you conveyed not the one you wanted them to solve.
(g) get out of the car