The authors of the pop-culture books FREAKONOMICS and SUPERFREAKONOMICS (Steven D. Levitt and John A. List) state that “remarkable patterns” found in the data of the Hawthorne Experiment were proved to be “entirely fictional”. From the paper’s abstract:
Posts Tagged: freakonomics
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Apr 09
Daily Links for April 15th through April 16th
- How Wawa became a success | Philly | 04/16/2009 – From a modest Delaware County milk-delivery business, Wawa has become the region's third-largest food merchant, behind Acme and ShopRite, according to Food Trade News. It employs 16,000 people and sells 195 million cups of coffee a year at its 570 stores in five states, and is among the top 10 coffee sellers in the country. Its revenue was about $1.6 billion last year, not counting the gas it pumped, which constitutes about 1 percent of the nation's total.
- How To Nail An Interview –
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Mar 09
Daily Links for March 2nd through March 3rd
- Why Is Her Paycheck Smaller? – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com – Nearly every occupation has the gap — the seemingly unbridgeable chasm between the size of the paycheck brought home by a woman and the larger one earned by a man doing the same job. Economists cite a few reasons: discrimination as well as personal choices within occupations are two major factors, and part of the gap can be attributed to men having more years of experience and logging more hours.
- Quantifying the Nightmare Scenarios – Freakonomics Blog – NYTimes.com – There’s no shortage of fear about the economy. But just how fearful should we be? Perhaps financial markets can provide some guidance.
