Marilyn Strathern

ThinkersBorn 1941Social anthropologist

Works

  • 'Improving Ratings': Audit in the British University System, European Review, 1997

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A Cambridge social anthropologist known for her work in Papua New Guinea and on audit culture. Her 1997 article on audit in British universities is the source of the general form of Goodhart's law now usually quoted: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

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