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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by mrexroad on Monday August 28, 2017 @02:42PM (#15118986)
Goodheart's Law [1]: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by zentiggr on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:54AM (#15123922)
Let's popularize this amongst the ranks of management, senior administrators and every other supervisor.... and especially the groups that help create the tests and stats and 'merit' systems.
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