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Rationally Speaking #240 - David Manheim on "Goodhart's Law and why metrics fail"

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How Does Good Heart's Law Work?

Good Heart's Law is about people trying to use the rules that are there to do things as well as they can. The clearest example of this happens when teachers change students' answers on tests for standardized tests, he says. "It's not a sophisticated game that they're playing where they're just changing things so that they do better"

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