Hm, this article reads like kind of a puff piece for Amplio.
> similar efforts to “grade” American schoolteachers, for instance, have perhaps generated more controversy than results.
Yes, for good reasons, namely...
> It’s all about trust.
No, it's not. At all. The author even notes the problem with scoring systems, that happened in this exact field. When you start scoring people, they start gaming the system to increase that score. It's the same problem with "grading teachers". You give surgeons huge incentives to start "fudging the truth" about their patients' surgical risk.
"Oh blah blah blah it's private". Great. Hopefully everyone involved can see the obvious future problems (which 7 comments in, other HN posters have zeroed in on), but they haven't given any assurances that these fears will never come to fruition. Or any prevention plans.
> It’s like Vickers said to me one night in early November, as we were discussing Amplio, “Having been in health research for twenty years, there’s always that great quote of Martin Luther King: The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.”
I actually laughed when I read this. How pretentious.
> similar efforts to “grade” American schoolteachers, for instance, have perhaps generated more controversy than results.
Yes, for good reasons, namely...
> It’s all about trust.
No, it's not. At all. The author even notes the problem with scoring systems, that happened in this exact field. When you start scoring people, they start gaming the system to increase that score. It's the same problem with "grading teachers". You give surgeons huge incentives to start "fudging the truth" about their patients' surgical risk.
"Oh blah blah blah it's private". Great. Hopefully everyone involved can see the obvious future problems (which 7 comments in, other HN posters have zeroed in on), but they haven't given any assurances that these fears will never come to fruition. Or any prevention plans.
> It’s like Vickers said to me one night in early November, as we were discussing Amplio, “Having been in health research for twenty years, there’s always that great quote of Martin Luther King: The arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice.”
I actually laughed when I read this. How pretentious.