Exhibit 1210 ยท Journal article
'Improving ratings': audit in the British University system
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
Anthropological account of the audit explosion in British higher education. Gives the widely used one-line version of Goodhart's law and credits Hoskin for attaching Goodhart's name to it.
- Source
- Marilyn Strathern, European Review 5(3): 305-321
- Date
- 1997
- Quoted from
- p. 308
- Grade
- Peer-reviewed
- Document
- https://www.gwern.net/doc/statistics/decision/1997-strathern.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- This is Strathern's wording, not Goodhart's. Goodhart's own 1975 formulation (Papers in Monetary Economics, Reserve Bank of Australia) was not accessible and no text was read.