Goodhart's Law The key problem of using a measure as a metric is sometimes referred to as Goodhart’s law. The law is based on a 1975 paper on economic regulati

Goodhart's Law The key problem of using a measure as a metric is sometimes referred to as Goodhart’s law. The law is based on a 1975 paper on economic regulation, and is typically paraphrased as “When a measure becomes a metric, it ceases to be a good measure.” When managing a system, this problem is critical, but is deeper than it at first seems, as I’ll argue. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-measurement-is-hard/ https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/06/09/goodharts-law-and-why-...