Goodhart’s Law:<\/p>\n

Once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play such a role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Translation: once people know what you’re measuring, they start to game the system. Read about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Goodhart’s Law: Once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy,…<\/p>\n

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