Sketchplanations - The Podcast

Goodhart's Law


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When it comes to the crunch, if there's something important at stake we'd all be tempted to consider gaming the system to hit our targets, wouldn't we?


We explore the phenomenon of Goodhart's Law; which says that as soon as a measure of something becomes a target determining success or failure, it ceases to be a good measure of performance - because there's a high chance we'll find cheeky ways to get there... won't we?


See Jono's sketch of Goodhart's Law here.

Jono mentions his sketch covering The Cobra Effect.


Have you ever played the system to hit a target or have you been frustrated when it's been done to you? Let us know at [email protected] or by leaving comments and messages for this episode on Instagram or Twitter.


You can find all three of us on Social Media here too: Jono Hey, Tom Pellereau, Rob Bell.


Find many more sketches at Sketchplanations.com


All Music on this podcast series is provided by Franc Cinelli. Find many more tracks at franccinelli.com

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