In the RSAnimate talk, Pink cited research that found that once people were doing the task (presumably under time pressure), higher incentives produced worse results.
That’s different from using an incentive to get people to come do the task at all.
I noticed a similar flaw in some studies Dan Areily was citing to prove that incentive pay didn’t work, and e-mailed him about it. He didn’t have any counterarguments when he responded to me, but he did keep citing the studies IIRC...
In the RSAnimate talk, Pink cited research that found that once people were doing the task (presumably under time pressure), higher incentives produced worse results.
That’s different from using an incentive to get people to come do the task at all.
I noticed a similar flaw in some studies Dan Areily was citing to prove that incentive pay didn’t work, and e-mailed him about it. He didn’t have any counterarguments when he responded to me, but he did keep citing the studies IIRC...