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Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:04
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In article <413jjl$jhs@sundog.tiac.net>, Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

> You know, I remember reading about an intersting study in user productivity
> once (the name Tayler comes to mind, but I'm not sure).  The study wanted
> to find out about the effect of lighting upon production on some sort of
> manufacturing floor.  The experimenters increased the light, and -- sure
> enough -- the productivity increased.  So they increased the light again,
> and the productivity increased again.  Hmmm...  They increased it again
> (it was getting rather *bright* in there), and sure enough -- productivity
> increased yet again.  Then they tried decreasing the light, and you know
> what -- the productivity increased.  The experimenters finally figured out
> that the reason productivity kept increasing was because *someone* was
> paying attention.

That's true. But then the productivity for both the Mac group and the PC
group would increase. So whats your explanation for why the productivity
of the Mac group increased disproportionatly to the PC group? Or perhaps
people are more productive with Macs.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine
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From: rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy)
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Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:04:12 -0700
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