Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why?
by friday99 on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:27PM
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Goodhart's law is entirely applicable to management (adding scientific in front doesn't actually mean anything). That is one of the prime areas of applicability. People change their behavior to increase a metric at the cost of decreasing other more important things.
https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/lsi/sigir04-cf-norm.pdf
Goodhart’s law is not applicable to scientific management because metrics have different purpose.