This is interesting on two fronts. First is that it mirrors something I was wondering about a while ago particularly as I started my journey from sciences to humanities (and therefore from “measurement” in the “abstract” to trying to understand context) http://cameronneylon.net/blog/who-do-you-get-to-say-i-am/

The other is that you’re touching on something that we hit on in our group last year. That the act of measuring something acts to restrict and in combination with a tight focus of concentrating resources adds to bad outcomes. But its the combination, not the measurement itself that causes the issue. Can resource allocation be generous and if so does that solve the problem?