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Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by dev_dull on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:42PM (#17474503)
Is it called the Wells Fargo effect now? When you optimize for a number, you'll get that number -- and it will deceive you.
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Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by kornish on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:51PM (#17474575)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by gdix on Friday July 06, 2018 @03:53PM (#17474589)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
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Re:Say Hello to Full Employment by azernik on Friday July 06, 2018 @06:24PM (#17475574)
A special case of Goodhart's Law, as applied to public policy.
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