‘Improving ratings’¶
Strathern, M. (1997). ‘Improving ratings’: audit in the British University system. European Review, 5(3), 305-321.
Cited by¶
9 citations across 9 artifacts.
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Mechanisms¶
- Adoption Dashboard
- Its central failure mode is metric theater: the moment a tracked number becomes the goal
This sourceStates Goodhart's law that a measure ceases to be reliable when it becomes a target, as target-driven assessment reshapes the activity being measured.
- Its central failure mode is metric theater: the moment a tracked number becomes the goal
- Automated Conformance Check
- And because pass rate is so visible, it invites optimizing to the check rather than to the underlying quality
This sourceStates Goodhart's law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- And because pass rate is so visible, it invites optimizing to the check rather than to the underlying quality
- Bycatch Rate Dashboard
- The classic misuse is building or slicing it after the fact to reassure — choosing the segmentation and the harm weights that make bycatch look negligible, which is exactly the failure mode Goodhart's law warns of: once the on-screen number becomes the thing being managed, it stops measuring the thing that matters.
This sourceExplains that managing to a measure as a target degrades its value as a measure of the underlying performance.
- The classic misuse is building or slicing it after the fact to reassure — choosing the segmentation and the harm weights that make bycatch look negligible, which is exactly the failure mode Goodhart's law warns of: once the on-screen number becomes the thing being managed, it stops measuring the thing that matters.
- Drain Dashboard
- It misleads when a single count becomes the thing everyone optimises
This sourceStates that a measure can cease to be a good measure when it becomes a target.
- It misleads when a single count becomes the thing everyone optimises
- Outcome Monitoring Review
- The classic trap is Goodhart's law: once a monitored number becomes the target
This sourceStates Goodhart’s law as the loss of a measure’s discriminating value once that measure becomes a target.
- The classic trap is Goodhart's law: once a monitored number becomes the target
- Pattern Monitoring Dashboard
- It misleads because you only see what you instrument, and once a metric is watched it tends to get gamed
This sourceExplains that a measure can cease to be a good measure once it becomes a target and is manipulated for improvement.
- It misleads because you only see what you instrument, and once a metric is watched it tends to get gamed
- Substance-over-Form Audit
- And once compliance is measured, the measure becomes a target
This sourceExplains that audit measures become targets and that target-driven audit reshapes conduct around auditable forms.
- And once compliance is measured, the measure becomes a target
- Work-Before-Metawork Ratio Dashboard
- Its failure mode is Goodhart's Law.
This sourceStates that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- Its failure mode is Goodhart's Law.
- Zone Health Dashboard
- Its signature failure is Goodhart's law — once a displayed metric becomes the target, teams optimize the indicator and it decouples from the health it was meant to signal, so a green dashboard can mask a sick zone.
This sourceStates Goodhart’s law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure because target pressure degrades its discriminating function.
- Its signature failure is Goodhart's law — once a displayed metric becomes the target, teams optimize the indicator and it decouples from the health it was meant to signal, so a green dashboard can mask a sick zone.
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- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1062798700002660 ×4
- https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1234-981X(199707)5:3%3C305::AID-EURO184%3E3.0.CO;2-4 ×1
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