On Sep 2, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
But back to Bell Labs...
The Hawthorne Effect, named for a Bell Labs experiment, has had a subtle but powerful impact on our society from marketing and production strategies to placebos to daylight savings time. Ultimately, the transistor was a more efficient, faster and much smaller version of what a vacuum tube did. The Hawthorne study gave completely unexpected results and, thus, was new. Dan
