Comment on David Lammy promises 25% cut in number of children jailed while they await trial
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoWell, ok, what works better than targets? Gotta measure how you’re going somehow.
Comment on David Lammy promises 25% cut in number of children jailed while they await trial
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoWell, ok, what works better than targets? Gotta measure how you’re going somehow.
Zombie@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Determining what your goal is in terms of outcome, not numbers or percentages.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell's_law
These things have been known about in sociology and political science for quite some time.