Etymology

Campbell's law

Today it means: The adage that "the more any quantitative social 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". Full definition →

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The story

Developed by American psychologist and social scientist Donald T. Campbell.

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