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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


The sources:

  1. Jerry Z. Muller's The Tyranny of Metrics.
  2. Grading is ineffective (Medium Post)
  3. (YouTube) Can Metrics Destroy Societies?
  4. Well's Fargo Scandal
  5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Taylorism
  6. More Perfect Union's expose on spyware at work.
  7. Ronan Farrow's "Bossware" video


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