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A bit curious how is it worded. I wonder, will it actually improve security, or will it be metrics that are being played around actually decreasing security (e.
by stoperaticless 2y ago
A bit curious how is it worded. I wonder, will it actually improve security, or will it be metrics that are being played around actually decreasing security (e.g. Teams might stop registering/tracking issues as a way of not having registered bugs)
- thegrim33 2y agoPretty much the definition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- fuzztester 2y agoWow, the first two things I thought of after reading the first few lines of that article were: - the Peter Principle (as a loosely related concept) and - that the new MS diktats would immediately be gamed. What was my surprise when I saw both those concepts mentioned in the See Also section! I did not know about most of the other See Also points, though, except for Confirmation bias, which I had read about on Hacker News, and the Hawthorne Effect, which I had read about elsewhere, IIRC, in a Dale Carnegie or similar self-help book.