> But only five workers took part in the study, Dr. Ross said, and two were replaced partway through for gross insubordination and low output.
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> A psychology professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Richard Nisbett calls the Hawthorne effect ''a glorified anecdote.''
https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/1556350
Hawthorne effect... was also made up.
> But only five workers took part in the study, Dr. Ross said, and two were replaced partway through for gross insubordination and low output. > > A psychology professor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Richard Nisbett calls the Hawthorne effect ''a glorified anecdote.''
(https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/06/weekinreview/scientific-m...)
I learned both these facts from the highly entertaining "The Management Myth": https://mwstewart.com/books/the-management-myth/