Campbell's Law
Properties
- logseq-entity
- Logseq/Entity/Named Law
Campbell's Law
- Statement: the more a quantitative social indicator is used for decision-making, the more it is subject to corruption pressures and the more it distorts the social processes it was meant to monitor.
- Origin: social scientist Donald T. Campbell (1979).
- Kind: heuristic.
- Example: schools teaching to standardized tests until the scores no longer reflect genuine learning.
See also
- Goodhart's Law — the more general statement of the same effect.
- Epistemics/Concept/Heuristic vs Axiom