> San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – 2012 manifesto against using the journal impact factor to assess a scientist's work. The statement denounces several problems in science and as Goodhart's law explains, one of them is that measurement has become a target. The correlation between h-index and scientific awards is decreasing since widespread usage of h-index.
> International Union for Conservation of Nature's measure of extinction can be used to remove environmental protections, which resulted in IUCN becoming more conservative in labeling something as extinct
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> San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment – 2012 manifesto against using the journal impact factor to assess a scientist's work. The statement denounces several problems in science and as Goodhart's law explains, one of them is that measurement has become a target. The correlation between h-index and scientific awards is decreasing since widespread usage of h-index.
> International Union for Conservation of Nature's measure of extinction can be used to remove environmental protections, which resulted in IUCN becoming more conservative in labeling something as extinct