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Has Violence Against Teachers Become Accepted by Society?

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Ambolia · 1790606557 · focus · HN ↗
That the whole article can be seen as a masterpiece of talking around the obvious while avoiding stepping on the mine. Obvious rules cannot be applied systematically because certain government metrics would look bad. Goodhart's law, any explicit metric will be immediately optimized. And this is people optimizing metrics as best as they can in play. I'll leave the obvious as an exercise for the reader.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
1. jmull · 1790608447 · focus · HN ↗
  What are the "obvious rules" that could be applied here? (They aren't obvious to me.)
  1. phoghed · 1790609787 · focus · HN ↗
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    neuroticnews25 · 1790610648 · focus · HN ↗
    Comparing raw punishment rates tells you nothing, because transgression rates can vary.
    phoghed · 1790611672 · focus · HN ↗
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    colpabar · 1790613308 · focus · HN ↗
    you didn't capitalize black so you're racist btw
    phoghed · 1790647655 · focus · HN ↗
    Some people are saying I’m the least racist to ever do it

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