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A Daily Lexicon of Trustworthy Data

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vanity quality metric

/ˈvæn.ɪ.ti ˈkwɒl.ɪ.ti ˈmet.rɪk/ - n.

1 [colloq.] The metric that goes up while trust goes down.Keep. Punchy.This is the problem.

Working definition

2. A quality measure chosen because it reliably reads well rather than because it reflects fitness for use or drives any decision.

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See also

completenessThe percentage of fields that are populated, of which a smaller, unmeasured percentage is populated correctly.
green dashboardGreen because nobody had agreed what red would have required someone to do.
quality scorecardA page that averages six things no one acts on into one number no one questions.