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Friday 25 February 2011

Goodhart's Law

Spotted in the Observer, 20.02.11:

"any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes". Or, as another academic summarised it: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."