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 20 October 2014 01:55:45AM 4 points [-]

Can you provide an example of what you'd like to see pass muster?

Comment author: evand 03 November 2014 03:41:20AM 0 points [-]

Roughly speaking: "Act normal" vs "Use Beeminder" vs "some alternative intervention". Basically, I expect to see "do something different" produce results, at least for a little while, for almost any value of "something different". Literally anything at all that didn't make it clear to the placebo group that they were the placebo group. Maybe some non-Beeminder exercise and intake tracking. Maybe a prescribed simple exercise routine + non-Beeminder tracking.