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Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by gbustomtv5 on Thursday October 11, 2018 @06:44PM (#18197625)
Normalizing commits number per author is not difficult.

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.

Re:Ask HN: Ex-FAANG developers, where are you now and why? by friday99 on Friday October 12, 2018 @12:27PM (#18202521)
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.