• An adage often stated as, “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom: “Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.” ← Wikipedia

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