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Re:How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Produ... by Neepy on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @06:48PM (#4662319)
It still irks me that people can tout off success as though it's guaranteed for small experiments such as this without even considering elements such as the Hawthorne effect - 'changed behaviour during the course of a study may be related to the special social situation and social treatment they received'
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Re:How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Produ... by mey on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @08:53PM (#4662721)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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Re:How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Produ... by michaelkscott on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @09:20PM (#4662804)
Thank you!
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Re:How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Produ... by Datonomics on Wednesday October 17, 2012 @02:14AM (#4663357)
Or just good ol' fashioned accountability.
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