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📝 Add perverse incentive example
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- Intentional system design.
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- Commitment to study the metric.
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- Human values are highly dimensional. Nudging people in the right direction is hard, especially because nudges usually are very low dimensional.
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- [Incentives might be perverse and the effects will be unexpected and contrary to the intentions of its designers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive) (e.g. Hacktoberfest spamming Pull Requests on Open Source repositories causing more work for mantainers).
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## Incentive Framework
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