[HN Gopher] Hawthorne Effect
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       Hawthorne Effect
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-04-24 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (en.wikipedia.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (en.wikipedia.org)
        
       | balaji1 wrote:
       | Is there a tool that indicates how "popular" a Wiki page is?
       | Something like a Google Trends metric of how often the topic is
       | searched for.
        
         | DoktorDelta wrote:
         | I'm not sure about searches, but you can view the metrics for
         | page views:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pageview_statistics
        
           | scrum-treats wrote:
           | Thanks for this! I took a peak at traffic to the "artificial
           | general intelligence" page. Quite the surge in traffic for
           | 2023: https://pageviews.wmcloud.org/?project=en.wikipedia.org
           | &plat....
        
       | postsantum wrote:
       | Related: Social Cooling 2692 points
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24627363
        
       | jll29 wrote:
       | Related: https://dictionary.apa.org/experimenter-bias (= Subjects
       | behave in ways that they believe help the experimenter.)
        
       | pkkm wrote:
       | I've been wondering whether this effect is behind the positive
       | results of 4-day work week trials. Does anyone know about data
       | that could answer this?
        
       | seizethecheese wrote:
       | This calls into question most psychological research.
        
         | crazygringo wrote:
         | No it doesn't, as psychological studies are done using control
         | groups that, if implemented properly, ought to respond equally
         | to any Hawthorne effect.
        
         | DoreenMichele wrote:
         | A lot of psychological studies are so poorly designed you can
         | ignore the results completely for other reasons and not worry
         | too much about this effect.
        
       | nologic01 wrote:
       | Social research has a sort of quantum uncertainty principle
       | embedded in it: The observer disturbs the observed by the mere
       | act of onbservation.
        
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