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What if it wasn't 50/50 though, and the flight instructor took actual measurements and found that 80% of praised cadets did worse on the second try (vs. no prai
by ythn 9y ago
What if it wasn't 50/50 though, and the flight instructor took actual measurements and found that 80% of praised cadets did worse on the second try (vs. no praise) and 80% of scolded cadets did better on the second try (vs. no scolding)?
Wouldn't that indicate that indeed no praise + lots of scolding is the best approach?
- fixermark 9y agoIt might if the flight instructor also controlled for what circumstances he hands out praise and scolding. If it's a Gaussian distribution of performance, and he praises above the 99th percentile of bad performance and scolds below the 99th percentile, that 80%-80% pattern might very well occur---but again, it'd be expected to occur, independent of the signal he's putting into the system (because the candidate's he's scolding are staggeringly unlikely to get worse, and the candidates he's praising staggeringly unlikely to get better).