Goodhart's law
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Goodhart's law is an adage named after economist Charles Goodhart, which has been phrased by Marilyn Strathern as "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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See also
- Campbell's law
- Reflexivity (social theory)
- Reification (fallacy)
- Overfitting
- Cobra effect
- McNamara fallacy
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