Discussion on academic evaluation reform citing Goodhart's Law
MaxUnfried · x · 2026-08-22
The post cites Goodhart's Law to discuss the long-standing issues in how academia evaluates and incentivizes scientists, arguing that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. It cites Prof. Karikó's 2023 Nobel Prize as an example of the failure of publication-count metrics, calling for a shift towards emphasizing quality and impact over quantity.
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