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The Anarchist and the Hockey Stick
experimental-history.com
Unconditional Cash Study Participant Stories
openresearchlab.orgEconomically relevant information is discovered from experimentation, not deduced from a model.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
In the study that was associated with Elton Mayo, which ran from 1928 to 1932, a series of changes in work structure were implemented (e.g., changes in rest periods) in a group of five women. However, this was a methodologically poor, uncontrolled study that did not permit any firm conclusions to be drawn.
en.wikipedia.org • Hawthorne Effect - Wikipedia
Experiment Design Template
So, the experiment design template is as follows:
1. Hypothesis. What we want to accomplish and how we want to accomplish it;
2. What we are doing in the product. What the experience of the test and control group looks like;
3. What users are we testing on. Which users and at what point become part of the experiment;
4. Key me
... See moreIt’s no secret that the project has run many highly successful experiments in this area. This appendix contains a chapter excerpted from a short book I’ve written on this topic. If this is an area of interest for you, it can be downloaded from: nonsymbolic.org / how-to-book.
Jeffery Martin • The Finders
“blind” tests, which help prevent the so-called Hawthorne effect: the tendency of study participants to modify their behavior, consciously or subconsciously, when they are aware that they are part of an experiment