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Since the target audience was rhe unemployed, changing up their type of income isn't going to give them a job, so prpductivity is difficult to measure.

The entire point of UBI is to secure everyones basic human needs, not get them a job (unlike unemployment benefits).

If we were to test UBI also on employed people, and observed their behavior, we might avtually gain useful insight into mechanica with UBI. Perhaps we will see more 6-hour workdays with more people employed?

The test was conducted by a popular right wing party "Kokoomus", which is heavily opposed to the system. This might affect the design of the test
No country's alike, and no system can be copied naively.

(also Finland isn't part of Scandinavia)

There is no money added, it comes from other systems it replaces
The experiment was terribly flawed in that it only addressed the unemployed, and it didn't affect the existing unemployment system for them, making incentives perverse for all taking part. The UBI was offered tax-free on top.

It represents nothing like real life UBI and needs to be redesigned as a test.