As I was reading the book, The Personal Kanban, I came across this experiment done by MIT professor Dan Ariely on deadlines. He was teaching the same thing to three classes (more like three sections of same class). As you would expect a professor in Psychology and Behavioral Economics to do, he decided to use this opportunity to run an experiment. Students of each class had to submit three papers which would account for most of their grades. But classes differed in their submission timelines.
Do deadlines help?
Do deadlines help?
Do deadlines help?
As I was reading the book, The Personal Kanban, I came across this experiment done by MIT professor Dan Ariely on deadlines. He was teaching the same thing to three classes (more like three sections of same class). As you would expect a professor in Psychology and Behavioral Economics to do, he decided to use this opportunity to run an experiment. Students of each class had to submit three papers which would account for most of their grades. But classes differed in their submission timelines.