So I'm watching a video of this right now[0], and it's even more enlightening than I figured it would be! Deming makes comments throughout the demonstration tha

So I'm watching a video of this right now[0], and it's even more enlightening than I figured it would be! Deming makes comments throughout the demonstration that I swear I've heard in the real world. For example, one worker—whose previous results put him on probation (he had 12 red beads)—managed to have only 6 the next day. "Looks like probation worked". Meanwhile another worker—previously scoring 5, and getting a merit-based raise from it—did poorly with 12. The remark: "That raise went to his head. He's getting lazy". So yeah, the value of this is in the actual doing of it. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pXu0qxtWPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pXu0qxtWPg