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by sokoloff 3000 days ago
A fine example of Goodhart’s Law

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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So happy to have a real term for this! I've always just said "A known metric is a gamed metric". Everything from "if you can't touch your toes you're unhealthy" to "price per square foot maximizing" in real estate... once a group has consolidated on a metric and let that metric be known, that metric is useless.