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Quote
"Once a social or economic indicator or other surrogate measure is made a target for the purpose of conducting social or economic policy, then it will lose the information content that would qualify it to play that role".
Also can be stated as
"Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes".Goodhart's Law