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Re:When did writing in major newspapers become so bad? by InitialLastName on Monday March 08, 2021 @01:53PM (#26389881)
Not GP, but that's a formation of Goodhart's law [0], which comes up in a lot of situations.

Notable potential Goodhart's law situations:

- Testing in education

- GDP (or a number of other economic indicators) as a measure of economic performance/target for economic performance

- Healthcare outcomes along a number of axes

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

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