Are metrics real?

[jasnonaz]

What's your key point? It is important for metrics professionals to have an understanding of how closely a given datapoint reflects base reality (base reality being a concept that is, of course, incredibly socially constructed), that this ties into being able to create business metrics that are useful for organizations and that it is of moral significance that we do a good job explaining these and making them transparent.

Prior art: Any other posts that exist on this topic (here or elsewhere).

Link to notes / outline / draft: draft - dbt Labs only for now Estimated first draft date: Leave blank if you already shared a draft above. Hoping to finalize this draft by sunday Any open questions / requests for help from the group?

[gwenwindflower]

i will let you move this tantalizing topic to the docs discussions yourself, this one will be ✨👀