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Comment author: orthonormal 13 June 2012 03:15:50PM 2 points [-]

Thanks for doing this!

I was hoping that you'd also include references for the experiments that Harry mentions offhand, like this one from Chapter 7:

(one experiment had shown that an unconditional gift of $5 was twice as effective as a conditional offer of $50 in getting people to fill out surveys)

I realize that would be a substantial amount of work, but it would be awesome.

Comment author: Tesseract 16 June 2012 05:15:10PM 2 points [-]

This particular reference is from James & Bolstein, 1992, and Eliezer gets it from Influence, Science and Practice. It's on chapter 2, page 26 in the fifth edition.

Comment author: orthonormal 17 June 2012 08:50:06PM 0 points [-]

Thanks!

Comment author: mstevens 14 June 2012 01:47:36PM 0 points [-]

I'm trying to get as much as I can find, but it's only the more obvious stuff so far. Changes welcome!

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