The candle problem may be one of the background ideas which contribute to the belief that large incentives don’t change biases, even though it’s a loose connection—it shows that incentives reduce creativity.
I’m not sure it quite proves everything it wants to prove—big rewards do induce creativity among scammers, even if it’s mostly variations on a few themes.
A lot of creativity went into creating the financial crisis—I’m not sure how much of it was deliberate fraud, and how much was people not wanting to think about the consequences of behaviors which could lead to big rewards for them.
The candle problem may be one of the background ideas which contribute to the belief that large incentives don’t change biases, even though it’s a loose connection—it shows that incentives reduce creativity.
I think I’ve found the source of the meme here Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation.
I’m not sure it quite proves everything it wants to prove—big rewards do induce creativity among scammers, even if it’s mostly variations on a few themes.
A lot of creativity went into creating the financial crisis—I’m not sure how much of it was deliberate fraud, and how much was people not wanting to think about the consequences of behaviors which could lead to big rewards for them.
I know about the motivation science stuff. But that’s very much distinct from debiasing.