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Re:Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse by najati83 on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:24AM (#14021982)
>as soon as you try to measure how well people are doing, they will switch to optimising for whatever you’re measuring, rather than putting their best efforts into actually doing good work

Similar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect ?

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Re:Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse by stdbrouw on Monday April 03, 2017 @07:33AM (#14022008)
The Hawthorne effect describes how any change in environment can temporarily lead to positive effects. The sentence you quote is more akin to Goodhart's law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law).
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