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See also Campbell's law, and Goodhart's law.

It's only human. If your employment evaluation depends on a specific statistic (the number of arrests you made, lines of code written, number of pupils passing the test, etc.) then you'll try to keep that statistic on a favourable level; even if doing so fails the original intent behind it all.




Incentives incentivize things; who knew?




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