The McNamara Fallacy of Metrics

Substack (Jono Hey)

The McNamara Fallacy is a belief in easy-to-measure quantitative metrics at the expense of ignoring hard-to-measure qualitative factors.

FY24 Federal Program Inventory Created Using AI

We The Doers (April Harding)

OMB has failed, for 15 years, to produce a complete federal program inventory (FPI). This demo shows a federal program inventory that OpenAI produced in one day. It has a rational structure with a more complete data framework than the official FPI, because this one is designed to answer: “What does the government actually do, and how does it apply our tax dollars to do that?”

Resource of the Week:  New Federal Evidence-Based Legislative Inventory

Results for America

You can view the real-time status of every bill, filter by issue area and see where bills include evidence-related provisions. The inventory helps lawmakers and their staff draft new evidence-based bills, reintroduce existing bills, and find model language to guide federal investment in effective solutions for the American people.