Goodhart’s Law: When a target becomes its own enemy
Idea to Value
AUGUST 10, 2021
It can also lead to innovation efforts that are focussed on solving one issue inadvertently causing many more issues as a result. ” Or, as anthropologist Marilyn Strathern paraphrased in 1997 , which became the more commonly known version of the Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. .
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