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Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

He’s a politician, he chose it for political reasons.

When the police chase targets, numbers get fudged. KPIs, crime statistics, performance targets, stakeholder demands, call it what you want, they will aim for that number regardless of the consequences. It’s bad governance and results in things breaking.

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teslekova@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Well, ok, what works better than targets? Gotta measure how you’re going somehow.

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- Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Determining what your goal is in terms of outcome, not numbers or percentages.
  
  When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
  
  The more any quantitive 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 social processes it is intended to monitor.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_law
  
  These things have been known about in sociology and political science for quite some time.
  
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