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Your typical case of measuring a doctor's success by the number of EGGs and the likes that his patients do!

Wrong incentives = unexpected outcomes!

Seems similar (or the same as) the cobra effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect

Similar to Goodhart's law: When a measure becomes a target it ceases to be a good measure [0]. You see it everywhere and it usually happens when we try to quantify a quality (like "competence"...)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

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