Editing Goodhart's law (section)

==See also==
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* [[Campbell's law]] – "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures"
* [[Cobra effect]] – when incentives designed to solve a problem end up rewarding people for making it worse
* [[Confirmation bias]] – the tendency to search for and recall information that confirms or supports one's prior beliefs
* [[Gaming the system]] – manipulating rules and procedures to obtain a desired outcome
* [[Hawthorne effect]] – when people modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed
* [[Lucas critique]] – the observation that it is naive to try to predict the effects of a change in economic policy entirely on the basis of relationships observed in historical data
* [[Map–territory relation]] – a type of [[Reification (fallacy)|reification fallacy]] where a [[mathematical model|model]] is confused with the thing being modeled
* [[McNamara fallacy]] – ignoring qualitative metrics on the basis that they cannot be measured
* {{annotated link|Metric fixation}}
* {{annotated link|Model collapse}}
* [[Overfitting]] – an analysis that corresponds too closely or exactly to a particular set of data
* [[Peter principle]] – individuals are promoted based on success in their previous roles, and not the role of the new position
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* {{annotated link|Reflexivity (social theory)}}
* [[Specification gaming]] – behaviour of artificial intelligence in working towards a poorly specified reward rather than the intended outcome
* [[Surrogation]] – in business, when a measure of a construct of interest evolves to replace that construct<!--
Not related: * [[Uncertainty principle]] – in quantum physics, a fundamental limit on the simultaneous measurability of multiple variables-->