#evaluation

Numbers That Are Too Neat

29 July 2026

Field data is rarely round. When a report is full of tidy numbers, what needs checking is not the field, but how it was recorded.

Choosing Indicators That Don't Fool You

8 July 2026

An indicator chosen because it is easy to count will change the work so that it is easy to count. That is no accident.

When Performance Indicators Measure the Wrong Thing: A Review of Local Planning Documents

Laras Anindita

Journal of Policy and Governance · Vol. 4, No. 3 · pp. 201-219 · 2022

A review of 48 local planning documents finds a recurring pattern: indicators that are easy to count displace the goals they were meant to serve. This article proposes a simple test to separate indicators that measure outcomes from those that merely measure activity.