How Goodhart's Law Breaks Metrics
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. People optimize for metrics, not goals, creating distortion and gaming.
What was corrected
Article attributed three specific measured findings to a 2016 Gingras 'analysis' and a longitudinal REF study specifically to Julie Belanger, neither of which is verifiable.
Gingras citation corrected to accurately describe his real 2016 book's general findings without the unverified specific statistics; the REF portfolio-gaming finding, which is real and well documented in the literature, is now described without the incorrect author attribution.
Why this is better
Verified both named-author citations against their real published work; found real people and real institutions with included an unverified findings or study attributions layered on top, the same pattern confirmed across other WNF articles this session.