Goodhart's Law Explained: Why Metrics Stop Working Once They Become Targets
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Measuring progress and performance is fundamental to almost any organized human activity. But there's an interesting paradox when we try to use those measurements to improve things: the moment we turn a metric into a target, it tends to lose its value as an indicator. This phenomenon, known as Good…
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Goodhart's Law Explained: Why Metrics Stop Working Once They Become Targets