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Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions

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360 points namlem | 2 comments | 14 Jul 25 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.444s | source
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torginus ◴[14 Jul 25 17:09 UTC] No.44562594[source]▶
* Campbell's Law (a variant of Goodhart's Law) states that the more a metric is used for social decision-making, the more it will be subject to corruption which distorts and corrupts not only the metric itself, but the very social processes it was meant to measure *

I just had a friend complain to me about LeetCode, saying that it's meaningless since everyone just mindlessly grinds the problem sets.

I pointed out to him that it's called studying for the test.

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1. Nicook ◴[14 Jul 25 18:40 UTC] No.44563746[source]▶
that's true, but are you trying to measure people's ability to study for the test?
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2. pjc50 ◴[15 Jul 25 13:32 UTC] No.44570972[source]▶
You can't really avoid that, but you can try to align it with the set of knowledge and skills that you actually want.