http://polemarchus.net A political science blog Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:32:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://polemarchus.net/2009/06/09/no-hawthorne-effect-at-hawthorne/ http://polemarchus.net/2009/06/09/no-hawthorne-effect-at-hawthorne/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:13:55 +0000 Sverre http://polemarchus.net/?p=385 Is nothing holy? Must I throw out my introduction textbook in methods now?  The guys over at the Freakonomics blog have dug up and reexamined the original Hawthorne data and concluded that there actually was no Hawthorne effect in the original Hawthorne study! I’m disappointed right to the very core of my post-graduate student soul. What should i believe in now?

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