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Hm … do you explore why Campbell’s Law is true?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_Law
Or even Goodhart’s law, which states:
“Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.”
(Goodhart’s original 1975 formulation)
Isn’t this what sociologists call measure reactivity?