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"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" is known as Goodhart's Law
by faangguyindia 1y ago
"When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" is known as Goodhart's Law
- airstrike 1y agoThe parent is arguing for a target, not for a metric, so Goodhart's Law doesn't apply here.
- faangguyindia 1y agoI didn't know Olympiads do not have any score (metric). Thank you.
- cyberax 1y agoThis is a BS saying because it's so easy to find counterexamples. Let's try to use the number of child deaths, for example. By your saying, trying to do that is bad. Because governments probably will somehow resurrect dead children to look good at this metric. Right?
- devmor 1y agoNo, but it is easy to see how reporting the death of children could be withheld - say for instance, if this metric had penalties associated with it.
- cyberax 1y agoThen it becomes a different metric.
- _DeadFred_ 1y agoLook at what France, Japan, and USA consider childhood deaths. Back when I did medical software and wrote reports, France and Japan both lumped at lot of deaths post birth into 'death at birth' to lower their childhood death statistics.