I think you maybe misunderstood me.
Choose a metric carefully, then test against data. Data which disagrees with your hypothesis doesn't invalidate the metric, it invalidates the hypothesis
In the original post it looked like the former, not the latter.
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I think you maybe misunderstood me.
Choose a metric carefully, then test against data. Data which disagrees with your hypothesis doesn't invalidate the metric, it invalidates the hypothesis
In the original post it looked like the former, not the latter.