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title: Everything measured goes up
date: 2006-11-13T17:01:52Z
modified: 2006-11-13T17:01:52Z
permalink: "https://dogwonder.co.uk/2006/11/everything-measured-goes-up/"
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status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 321
categories:
  - General
tags:
  - statistics
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> ….”Everything measured goes up”. Specifically, he meant that the act of measuring itself creates an impetus for change and competition—a pressure to move a figure towards whichever extreme is (sometimes arbitrarily given the absence of context) defined as ‘better’. It’s a comment on the nature of observation, feedback loops and the selection of the criteria by which you measure success.

From [plasticbag.org/ ](<http://plasticbag.org/ >)