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"We find that there actually wasn’t a Hawthorne Effect in the original data, at least not of the sort that you read about in virtually every introductory psychology textbook, where it is claimed that the workers’ output went up every time the lighting was changed, whether the change was to make the lights brighter or dimmer.
The Economist magazine has a nice piece on it."
Not totally sure why this is new. I know my professors (Kevin Murphy who then taught at the Simon School of the University of Rochester specifically) taught us that it never existed.
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