Request: “K. Hoskin (1996) The ‘awful idea of accountability’: inscribing people into the measurement of objects. In Accountability: Power , Ethos and the Technologies of Managing, R. Munro and J. Mouritsen (Eds). London, International Thomson Business Press, and references therein.”
See Google Books, and Worldcat (Available in many UK universities, incl. Cambridge & Oxford, and in the NYPL, at MIT, etc.)
Context: Looking for sources about the history of Goodhart’s law, esp. as “quoted”/ paraphrased, seemingly by Strathern.
From Strathern’s paper: ”When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. The more a 2.1 examination performance becomes an expectation, the poorer it becomes as a discriminator of individual performances. Hoskin describes this as ‘Goodhart’s law’, after the latter’s observation on instruments for monetary control which lead to other devices for monetary flexibility having to be invented. However, targets that seem measurable become enticing tools for improvement.”
Request: “K. Hoskin (1996) The ‘awful idea of accountability’: inscribing people into the measurement of objects. In Accountability: Power , Ethos and the Technologies of Managing, R. Munro and J. Mouritsen (Eds). London, International Thomson Business Press, and references therein.”
(Cited by: Strathern, Marilyn (1997). “‘Improving ratings’: audit in the British University system”. European Review. John Wiley & Sons. 5 (3): 305–321. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1234-981X(199707)5:3<05::AID-EURO184>3.0.CO;2-4.)
See Google Books, and Worldcat (Available in many UK universities, incl. Cambridge & Oxford, and in the NYPL, at MIT, etc.)
Context: Looking for sources about the history of Goodhart’s law, esp. as “quoted”/ paraphrased, seemingly by Strathern.
From Strathern’s paper:
”When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. The more a 2.1 examination performance becomes an expectation, the poorer it becomes as a discriminator of individual performances. Hoskin describes this as ‘Goodhart’s law’, after the latter’s observation on instruments for monetary control which lead to other devices for monetary flexibility having to be invented. However, targets that seem measurable become enticing tools for improvement.”
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I also just requested this on reddit
Also just requested on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Scholar/comments/mtwl4d/chapter_k_hoskin_1996_the_awful_idea_of/