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> Imagine if I said "People who skip breakfast are worse at their jobs". Its so vague, its always true. As long as you can define some measure of "worse at the
by throwawaysleep 7mo ago
> Imagine if I said "People who skip breakfast are worse at their jobs". Its so vague, its always true.
As long as you can define some measure of "worse at their jobs", which corporations routinely do, this seems like an easy thing to falsify.
Go get employee eval scores and poll everyone on whether they eat breakfast.
- DrewADesign 7mo agoAnd they did use cognitive tests that were correlated with job performance. If the people did not perform differently on those tests, or performed better on those tests… well there you go. Is it the most rigorous study in the world? Obviously not. Does it indicate what it purports to indicate? It sure does.
- nitwit005 7mo agoThat sort of method has proven problematic, as the thing that matters could be something correlated with breakfast, and the breakfast itself could be irrelevant. You usually have to ask people to change their behavior. Pretty straight forward in this case though.