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Re:The Dangers of Intermediate Targets: IQ, Cholesterol, and... by emmfr on Friday March 06, 2015 @05:52AM (#9156483)
Useful related concept in the social sciences: Goodhart's law [1]

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

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Re:The Dangers of Intermediate Targets: IQ, Cholesterol, and... by paol on Friday March 06, 2015 @08:25AM (#9156851)
With the corollary that every measure always becomes a target...
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