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[–] 2 points 1 week ago

And yet, I've seen it touted as a useful, if approximate, metric since I was in secondary school last century (1990s).

Sometimes the "dumbest" stuff gets used just because it's a translation to the "standard" number line. I don't know which, if either, was the cause and which was the effect, but it kind of thinking strongly correlates with a "number go up" / infinite growth measure of success.

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