Goodhart's law, credentials and social order - Part 1
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Start-ups and sports are different because what they want to measure is observable, which means it can be directly measured. In football for example there is no proxy for the number of assists. Secondly, because the way in which the measurement was conducted was never a direct measurement to begin with, it’s the publicness of the indirect measurement that actually caused the unintended behaviour. In other words a measurement being a target, doesn’t automatically become a bad measurement.
Goodhart's law, credentials and social order - Part 1
Goodhart's law, credentials and social order…
Goodhart's law, credentials and social order - Part 1
Start-ups and sports are different because what they want to measure is observable, which means it can be directly measured. In football for example there is no proxy for the number of assists. Secondly, because the way in which the measurement was conducted was never a direct measurement to begin with, it’s the publicness of the indirect measurement that actually caused the unintended behaviour. In other words a measurement being a target, doesn’t automatically become a bad measurement.