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- Goodhart's Fallacy
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Goodhart’s law is a somewhat famous statement, essentially saying that “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure”. I’ve thought that this naturally implies a construction as a fallacy, and just wanted to write it down. Goodhart’s fallacy, I posit, is the fallacy of appealing to a measure without verifying its capabilities of measuring your target. A simple example I encounter often as a student is using GPA as some kind of proxy for success or intelligence when it is most often best explained by time/effort instead of any kind of innate qualities.

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