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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by tomtomistaken on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @04:49PM (#20751965)
More like Goodhart‘s law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by austinjp on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:04PM (#20752123)
"What gets measured gets treasured."
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by SI_Rob on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:34PM (#20752901)
and the corollary, "the uncountable is of no account"
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by jjtheblunt on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:13PM (#20752216)
I'd never seen that, and it reminds me of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle somehow.
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Re:Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in ne... by marcosdumay on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:43PM (#20752522)
Heisenberg's principle says that when you measure one thing, you lose track of others. I guess it's kind of complementary to this (except that it applies to very different things, obviously).
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