“Goodhart's Law—“Any measure that becomes a target ceases to be a good measure”—and college rankings are a textbook Goodhart situation. Ranking schools may sound like a great idea, but it just encourages every school to game the system, rendering the rankings nearly useless.”
#Academia #Universities #HigherEd #AcademicChatter
https://open.substack.com/pub/experimentalhistory/p/how-to-drive-a-stake-through-your?r=22ugrl&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
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