May 112016
The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.
This adage is an example of unintended consequences, or the Cobra Effect, when an attempted solution to a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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