Definitions by Midwesternmick
Mismetrics
Metrics that make a system appear to be working better than it actually is because they fail to account for how people alter their behavior in response to the system.
Workarounds can look like functionality. Adaptation can look like efficiency. Abandonment can look like improvement.
A mismetric occurs when the numbers may be technically accurate, but what they appear to tell you about the system is wrong.
Workarounds can look like functionality. Adaptation can look like efficiency. Abandonment can look like improvement.
A mismetric occurs when the numbers may be technically accurate, but what they appear to tell you about the system is wrong.
Mismetrics Example:
Support tickets dropped 40%, and management thinks that means the functionality problems have been fixed, but nobody fixed the software. Everyone just stopped using that module. That’s a mismetric.
Support tickets dropped 40%, and management thinks that means the functionality problems have been fixed, but nobody fixed the software. Everyone just stopped using that module. That’s a mismetric.
Mismetrics by Midwesternmick August 29, 2026
cashtitty
Versatile phrase, emphasizing the extreme goodness or badness of an object, person, feeling or situation.
cashtitty by Midwesternmick October 29, 2021
Public Shaming
Current form of societal control used to manipulate your 8 year old son being accepted into a rec league baseball team. Related: public servant, good ole boy, chewing tobacco, carpetbaggers.
All the local kids got rejected from the team until their tax paying local voting parents used public shaming on the rec league into accepting them.
Public Shaming by Midwesternmick May 7, 2018