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Look, all metrics can be gamed.

Take an existing project find all the places that link to each section of code and you have some idea how reusable things are. Tell people your doing this ahead of time and you promote spaghetti code. Ask people how difficult an objective is and you get a wide range of biases based on how you use the information etc.

The secret is not how to get the most reliable data, it's how to get the best outcomes including they way people try to game the system.



Look, all metrics can be gamed.

Look, now it's obvious you didn't carefully read the original comment! (Left as exercise.)




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