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1890 || the spirit of the metrics

Sometimes our emotional world's and subjective experiences are what make us MORE reliable, not less.

The focus on getting a high score actually distorts what we're scoring. The problem is not measurement, but a fixation on it

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." - Goodhart’s Law

This is why teachers teach to a test, or why cops create fake crime accusations to meet quotas, or why doctors reject patients who need the most care.

The cobra effect, the Hanoi rat problem, the broken dinosaur bone problem, tax refunds for carbon credits, "bug bounties" for programmers…

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