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nabla9 on Nov 17, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: The mathematics of science’s broken reward system

Some metrics are more resistant to manipulation than others.

Mechanism design (reverse game theory) is subfield of game theory deals with these issues.

danieltillett on Nov 17, 2016 [–]

Do you have any good resources on this topic.

Edit. Prof. Google to the rescue [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_design

nabla9 on Nov 17, 2016 | [–]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12981167

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