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Philly scientist behind COVID vaccine tech was dem...
You get what you measure. We get publications.
MichaelZuo
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The follies of human organizations since time immemorial summed up in a single point.
whatshisface
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I feel like this saying would be better phrased as, "you get what you reward," because as long as you don't directly incentivize the metric it can still be useful.
drivers99
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“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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