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Campbell's Law: The dark side of metric fixation

by Kate Moran nngroup.com published 2021-11-07

When organizations optimize metrics at the cost of all else, they expose themselves to metric corruption. Ultimately, as the Facebook scandal illustrates, they may fail their users and their business goals.

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