overmetricing
We value things that can be measured by metrics (test scores) vs subjective things (How well you work with others). This can create a perverse incentive to focus on improving the measurable things at the cost of everything else.
Dr. Thi Nguyen calls this phenomenon “value capture”
“The measurement of complex social phenomena is always reductionist” - Making Games In A Fucked Up World-Paolo Pedercini
