Campbell's law
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Campbell's law is an adage developed by Donald T. Campbell, a psychologist and social scientist who often wrote about research methodology, which states:
"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."
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See also
- Perverse incentive
- Reflexivity (social theory)
- Proxy (statistics)
- Goodhart's law
- Observer effect (physics)
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