Correction Concepts
Why Good Intentions Still Lead to Bad Outcomes
Good intentions fail when they ignore unintended consequences, systemic effects, and how systems adapt. Wanting good outcomes doesn't guarantee them.
Factually incorrect
What was corrected
What the page claimed
The article attributed the well-known precise phrasing of Goodhart's Law directly to Charles Goodhart as a quotation.
What was corrected
Added the correct attribution to Marilyn Strathern's 1997 reformulation, distinguishing it from Goodhart's original 1975 statement.
Why this is better
This precise wording is commonly but incorrectly attributed directly to Goodhart; it is Strathern's later reformulation. Correction fixes the attribution rather than adding new sources.
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