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I infer an undercurrent of “politics is about manipulating people not representing them” from Campbell and “Wally is going to code himself a minivan” (Dilbert r

I infer an undercurrent of “politics is about manipulating people not representing them” from Campbell and “Wally is going to code himself a minivan” (Dilbert ref) from Goodhart. So Campbell’s might be Goodhart with a politics context but it has a slimier feel to me.

SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
> I infer an undercurrent of “politics is about manipulating people not representing them” There's a scene or two in The Wire about "Juking the stats" (1) - its about fooling the people in order to look good and meet campaign promises. Manipulating indeed. More like "Mayor Carcetti's going to juke himself a second term" > “Wally is going to code himself a minivan” (Dilbert ref) from Goodhart Not really, Goodhart was talking about UK monetary policy in 1975. It's political from the start. (2) These aren't different. 1) https://medium.com/@roshanrevankar/juking-the-stats-5926eaf5464 https://medium.com/@roshanrevankar/juking-the-stats-5926eaf5... 2) "Goodhart's law is an adage named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who advanced the idea in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom, Problems of Monetary Management: the U.K. Experience: Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes." (Wikipedia)