Florian_Dietz comments on question: the 40 hour work week vs Silicon Valley? - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Florian_Dietz 24 October 2014 12:09PM

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 24 October 2014 03:04:24PM 2 points [-]

If you mean stuff like this:

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/169/5/596.full#ack-1

that does not say what you probably think it says (because of the "healthy worker survivor effect.")

Comment author: Florian_Dietz 24 October 2014 04:07:49PM 0 points [-]

No, that's not what I mean. The studies I am talking about measure the productivity of the company and are not concerned with what happens to the workers.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 25 October 2014 08:10:09AM *  2 points [-]

It's difficult to talk about these supposed studies, since you didn't link any, but unless done carefully, they would also be vulnerable to the same issues as the grandparent (confounding over time, basically).