How Goodhart's Law Breaks Metrics
Explore Goodhart's Law—when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure—and how to design metrics that resist gaming.
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Explore Goodhart's Law—when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure—and how to design metrics that resist gaming.
Understand fundamental economic principles—supply and demand, opportunity cost, incentives—without jargon or mathematical complexity.
Analyze incentive failures—real cases where reward systems created perverse behavior, gaming, and outcomes opposite to intent.
Understand incentive mechanics—how rewards and punishments shape behavior, create alignment, and why incentive design matters.