Originally Posted by
livedarklions
It's also human nature to engage in pointless ad hominem, and it makes the person doing it sound like an uninformed buffoon. I don't buy this "objectively flawed and superficial" nonsense--it's just not a clear and easy call either way.
Be that as it may, the measure was basically an ambush in the meeting. Brought up by surprise, against the staff recommendations.
Objectively superficial because it looked at only one data point, flawed because it generalized from the one data point without consideration of the actual, documented effects of similar measures (the same mistake someone else just made in this thread).