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C. Thi Nguyen on Why Measuring Everything Ruins Everything

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 01:21:41
Publish Date: 2026-02-10 11:00:00
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C. Thi Nguyen is a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. His latest book is The Score: How to Stop Playing Someone Else’s Game.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Thi Nguyen discuss why metrics both help and harm institutional decision-making, how game design principles can improve classroom learning, and whether some aspects of human life are inherently unmeasurable.

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