Re:Web Surfing Helps at Work, Study Says
by HarrietTubgirl on Monday August 22, 2011 @03:17PM
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Oof, it's hard to draw conclusions from this.
- The stuff the subjects are doing bears only a passing resemblance to the work that most of us have to do.
- Surfing the web is probably what those students are doing for breaks in work anyway on a regular basis [If you gave them no restriction, how many of them would choose surfing the web? How much is this study is just a measure of "if you let people do what they want on their breaks it's better than restricting them"]
- Were students paid differently if they performed better? Were there any incentives to perform the task at all?
- How is the control group of a study measure effectiveness of break strategies one that's doing more work? :(
- The stuff the subjects are doing bears only a passing resemblance to the work that most of us have to do.
- Surfing the web is probably what those students are doing for breaks in work anyway on a regular basis [If you gave them no restriction, how many of them would choose surfing the web? How much is this study is just a measure of "if you let people do what they want on their breaks it's better than restricting them"]
- Were students paid differently if they performed better? Were there any incentives to perform the task at all?
- How is the control group of a study measure effectiveness of break strategies one that's doing more work? :(