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Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
by social_quotient 6y ago
Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- ta988 6y agoWe need another law here... When everybody maintains bad measures despite knowing they don't work. Impact factors in science are another example of that. You can say it is broken and proove it, your jury for grants or positions will still ask you to put the numbers next to your papers, and if you don't they'll do it themselves...