Campbell’s Law

Chris Lehmann dropped this into my attention stream twice this past week.

Campbell’s Law:  The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.

Source: Wikipedia

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