JanetK comments on The Importance of Goodhart's Law - Less Wrong

75 Post author: blogospheroid 13 March 2010 08:19AM

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Comment author: JanetK 13 March 2010 09:11:24AM 4 points [-]

I noticed this tendency in British running of hospitals, schools and police forces. The gov got hooked on the idea of targets and not on medicine, education and public order.

Comment author: taw 13 March 2010 12:07:47PM 1 point [-]

And yet, correlation between government targets and results is probably a lot higher than correlation between teachers/doctors/policemen fuzzy ideas how their job should be done and results.

Comment author: MichaelVassar 14 March 2010 07:26:35PM 5 points [-]

Maybe, but how probably and how much? Why do you think that? For which governments? By what measure?