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Do you have a source for that 8x figure? I have heard the term tossed about in the context of engineering, but agriculture is a surprise! When I picked blueber
by LeifCarrotson 9y ago
Do you have a source for that 8x figure? I have heard the term tossed about in the context of engineering, but agriculture is a surprise!
When I picked blueberries as a summer job there certainly wasn't an 8x difference between workers. Perhaps between us and the you-pick people?
- taneq 9y agoI'd guess no matter the original context, once you're being 8x more effective than your colleagues, it's due to some kind of engineering. So in agriculture, your 8x hay mower is the one who's built himself a scythe instead of using a hand knife.
- frostymarvelous 9y agoIn that case, should he tell his employer he mechanized his work?
- sidek 9y agoI've worked jobs with such a disparity. For a govt census job, the top two workers out of 20 visited 3x the dwellings per hour and had a ~4x success rate per dwelling compared to the average, so they were literally doing as much as the other 18 employees.
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoWhat were they doing differently? And why were the other workers not trained to do the same?
- anovikov 9y agoThey've almost certainly been just nicer people who people liked to communicate better. Like, young pretty girls with pleasant voice. And they knew how to build right approach to people. That's it, and it can't be trained.
- ruricolist 9y agoI do have a source, and I finally tracked it down: https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7research/7calag06.htm https://nature.berkeley.edu/ucce50/ag-labor/7research/7calag...