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Comment author: JGWeissman 09 April 2013 06:29:55AM 15 points [-]

That effect has a name, which eludes me, can anyone supply it? (Loss of reliability when a variable is targetted directly and thus becomes subject to manipulations.)

You are thinking of Goodhart's Law.

Comment author: Kawoomba 09 April 2013 06:33:08AM 1 point [-]

Cheers!

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