When Quantity triumphs Quality: Applying Quantitative approach for real-life problems

I recently read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, and came across this anecdote, extracted as follows:

“ON THE FIRST day of class, Jerry Uelsmann, a professor at the University of Florida, divided his film photography students into two groups.

Everyone on the left side of the classroom, he explained, would be in the “quantity” group. They would be graded solely on the amount of work they produced. On the final day of class, he would tally the number of…