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Goodhart’s Law: Basing Policy on Measurements Corrupts the Measure

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DSIA02D – Part D of 2nd Lecture on Developing Statistics: An Islamic Approach. Unobservable factors like quality have some indicators like publications. But if we replace quality by publication count, this leads researchers to focus on quantity rather than quality, distorting the relationship between publication count and quality. For detailed writeup see: bit.do/dsia02d

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DSIA02D – Part D of 2nd Lecture on Developing Statistics: An Islamic Approach. Unobservable factors like quality have some indicators like publications. But if we replace quality by publication count, this leads researchers to focus on quantity rather than quality, distorting the relationship between publication count and quality. For detailed writeup see: bit.do/dsia02d


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