- How we assess an intervention informs what the information should be. The moment we know that we're measuring something we will automatically start optimising for that. - The entire country of India for example strives to improve on the ASER scores for example and that becomes the driver. - It becomes a case of the [[Tail is Wagging the Dog]] --- “As soon as you assess and place importance on the result of an assessment, the assessment informs what the intervention should be,” says Abhinav Ghosh, a PhD scholar at Harvard. If your assessment says children are not identifying letters, the automatic intervention will be to put all effort into identifying letters, all else can wait.” - [Link](https://thewire.in/education/how-rich-donors-have-caused-more-harm-than-good-to-indias-education)