DavidLS comments on Fixing Moral Hazards In Business Science - Less Wrong

33 Post author: DavidLS 18 October 2014 09:10PM

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Comment author: DavidLS 19 October 2014 07:05:18AM *  3 points [-]

Thank you. I had forgotten about that.

So let's say the two groups were, as you suggest:

  • Tracking food & exercise on Beeminder
  • Tracking food & exercise in a journal

Do you have any thoughts on what questions we should be asking about this product? Somehow the data collection and analysis once we have the timeseries data doesn't seem so hard... but the protocol and question design seems very difficult to me.

Comment author: pjeby 24 October 2014 05:24:26PM 3 points [-]

I wonder if there should be a group where they still get Beeminder's graph, but they don't pay anything for going off their road. (In order to test whether the pledge system is actually necessary.)