More context to my question:
Both the Voltaic pile (1799) and Geissler tube (1857 when Thomson was just barely born) were before his time (In that order) - So I'm a little confused why J.J. Thomson is credited with 'discovering' the electron... Thoughts?
So I wasn't quite sure if I should put it under anything specific but I just got out of my philosophy class and for research purposes for my English class (I'm kind of all over the place forgive me) i asked my teacher if he recommended any articles on the topic of either abortion or women's reproductive rights and he recommended this one
It's from a larger book called "Philosophy and Public affairs" if I'm reading it correctly but the section I'm interested in is Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion"
I will admit I havent read all of it yet but just from the first few paragraphs, I can tell it's going to be a great read because she's spending her time tearing the "pro-life" argument to shreds and I'm living for it.
Has anyone read this? I highly recommend it this far.
Request: "K. Hoskin (1996) The โawful idea of accountabilityโ: inscribing people into the measurement of objects. In Accountability: Power , Ethos and the Technologies of Managing, R. Munro and J. Mouritsen (Eds). London, International Thomson Business Press, and references therein."
Seemingly Republished 2012 - See Google Books and Worldcat (Available in many UK universities, incl. Cambridge & Oxford, and in the NYPL, at MIT, etc.)
Context: Looking for sources about the history of Goodhart's law, esp. as "quoted"/ paraphrased, seemingly by Strathern.
From Strathern's paper:
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. The more a 2.1 examination performance becomes an expectation, the poorer it becomes as a discriminator of individual performances. Hoskin describes this as โGoodhartโs lawโ, after the latterโs observation on instruments for monetary control which lead to other devices for monetary flexibility having to be invented. However, targets that seem measurable become enticing tools for improvement."
