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Old 07-15-2004, 01:15 AM   #10 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Heavens2kadonka
Thats the Hawthorne Effect.

Source: http://www.accel-team.com/motivation/hawthorne_01.html

(Jim,
Just had to do that, since I'm guessing I'm not the only one that read your post and said: "What the hell is the Hawthorne Effect!?!" )
Sorry, that was a pretty grand oversight on my part. The Hawthorne Effect (if someone knows or thinks they are part of an experiment, they results will be more likely positive -- hence the need for a control group) and the Pygmalion Effect (self-fulfilling prophecies) are pretty common terms in controlled research.

My bad.
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