[wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law) > [!quote] When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. > [!quote] Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. # Personal examples * “Growth mindset” * “Strategic thinking” # Related Concepts * **Reification** - Reification (also known as concretism, hypostatization, or the fallacy of misplaced concreteness) is a fallacy of ambiguity, when an abstraction (abstract belief or hypothetical construct) is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity. * **Surrogation** - Surrogation is a psychological phenomenon found in business practices whereby a measure of a construct of interest evolves to replace that construct.