A wage bonus incentive raised hand compositors' output by sixty-seven per cent¶

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Currency · newest study 1922 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Motivation in the form of a wage bonus increased hand compositors' output by sixty-seven per cent. → Gates 1922

Evidence¶

Gates 1922¶

Gates, Arthur I. (1922). Educational psychology at the Princeton meeting of the American Psychological Association. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Educational_Psychology

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Conference report of H. D. Kitson's industrial study of hand compositors; the printed sixty-seven per cent output increase is reported as printed, with no standardized effect size or test statistic given.

"The effect of motivation in the form of a wage bonus on the improvement of abilities among hand compositors as reported by H. D. Kitson, Indiana University, was an increase in output of sixty-seven per cent."

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