Goodhart’s Law, the Cobra Effect, and Dunning-Kreuger • Posts by EIM | Evidence In Motion

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If the test itself becomes a training tool, then are you simply training to the test and does the test actually still work?

Goodhart’s Law, the Cobra Effect, and Dunning-Kreuger November 19, 2019 • Sports It happened again. I got caught in the black hole of web-surfing and the downward trundling of “ oh, what ‘ s that? That sounds interesting,” which led to a 4-hour adventure into interesting concepts and underlying psychologic phenomena. Enjoy! Let ‘ s start with a thought-provoking idea. Have you ever considered how expectations or targets might influence our motives, decision-making, and/or actions? Well, Goodhart ‘ s Law is exactly that: “ When a measure becomes a target

Goodhart’s Law, the Cobra Effect, and Dunning-Kreuger • Posts by EIM | Evidence In Motion

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