Re:OpenResearch Unconditional Cash Study's first findings av...
by roughly on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:33PM
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> I think your reasoning is a bit motivated - this is a pretty good social science experiment that was very careful to preregister their analysis.
I’ll cop to that, but there are a lot of people commenting here who seem to be latching on to the relatively small decrease in working hours as a primary takeaway, and I’ve seen enough motivated reasoning around this topic elsewhere to have a theory on why they’re doing so.
And, for what it’s worth, I’m not trying to critique the study itself or the conditions it was performed under.
Good thing they had the participants complete a time journal so we can see that it mostly went towards leisure time and socializing. Again, I'm not making a moral judgement here - for a similar amount of money relative to my salary I would also shift towards more leisure at the margin.
> I don’t think I’d draw a lot of conclusions
The point of the experiment is precisely so we can draw generalizable conclusions about how money around this quantity impacts people's behaviors/incentives. Many welfare programs offer similar quantities of saving.
I think your reasoning is a bit motivated - this is a pretty good social science experiment that was very careful to preregister their analysis.