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Article #1402Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:04
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:04
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In article <413jjl$jhs@sundog.tiac.net>, Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote: > You know, I remember reading about an intersting study in user productivity > once (the name Tayler comes to mind, but I'm not sure). The study wanted > to find out about the effect of lighting upon production on some sort of > manufacturing floor. The experimenters increased the light, and -- sure > enough -- the productivity increased. So they increased the light again, > and the productivity increased again. Hmmm... They increased it again > (it was getting rather *bright* in there), and sure enough -- productivity > increased yet again. Then they tried decreasing the light, and you know > what -- the productivity increased. The experimenters finally figured out > that the reason productivity kept increasing was because *someone* was > paying attention. That's true. But then the productivity for both the Mac group and the PC group would increase. So whats your explanation for why the productivity of the Mac group increased disproportionatly to the PC group? Or perhaps people are more productive with Macs. -- Bob Cassidy UC Irvine
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!dante.eng.uci.edu!user From: rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:04:12 -0700 Organization: UC Irvine Message-ID: <rmcassid-2108951304120001@dante.eng.uci.edu> References: <stephenkDD9Ay3.H7D@netcom.com> <40ooq2$pm0@navajo.gate.net> <40or0h$15n6@navajo.gate.net> <40p4eo$qeo@caesar.ultra.net> <40pccd$61p@bug.rahul.net> <docjoe-1608950821470001@ip13.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <danpop.808603659@rscernix> <DDGy01.6tn@mail.auburn.edu> <danpop.808786740@rscernix> <docjoe-1808952118480001@ip198.wilmington.de.interramp.com> <413jjl$jhs@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: dante.eng.uci.edu