Correction: How Goodhart's Law Breaks Metrics
Corrected by Emir Baycan · Full-Stack Developer, Mobile App Builder and Web Platform Founder with expertise in SEO, automation, SaaS, AI visibility, DevOps and scalable digital products
Emir Baycan found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 29 July 2026
The exact change
Article attributed three specific measured findings to a 2016 Gingras 'analysis' and a longitudinal REF study specifically to Julie Belanger, neither of which is verifiable.
Gingras citation corrected to accurately describe his real 2016 book's general findings without the invented specific statistics; the REF portfolio-gaming finding, which is real and well documented in the literature, is now described without the incorrect author attribution.
Suggested change
See before/after.
Why this is better
Verified both named-author citations against their real published work; found real people and real institutions with fabricated specific findings or study attributions layered on top, the same pattern confirmed across other WNF articles this session.
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