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Comment by spaceflunky

Also, Goodhart's Law. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

There's people who spend their whole adolescence studying for the SATs and their parents pay for every possible tutor and advantage they can find. Side note, my friend's mom got him diagnosed with ADHD so that he could get extra time on SAT (spoiler: he never had ADHD).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

parent spaceflunky 7 years ago

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