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Are we "owed" money beyond what we earned from the coin flips or essay grading? Maybe not but perhaps we feel that way. One analysis of the "wasted employee t
by Amorymeltzer 11y ago
Are we "owed" money beyond what we earned from the coin flips or essay grading? Maybe not but perhaps we feel that way. One analysis of the "wasted employee time" due to slacking off with solitaire and the like - clearly this is an old study - found it was basically a way for employees to only do the amount of work they felt they were being paid for. A little way of getting back at the employer for being, as they felt, underpaid.
Which is to say, I wonder if this effect might change if the participants were offered more money?
- biot 11y agoOr autonomy: tell participants they need to design their own coin-flipping experiment, then perform, measure, and report the results. They still might be underpaid on a $/time basis, but with a greater investment in the process I suspect they'd have a certain amount of pride in ensuring accurate results.