The Hawthorne Effect

When you bring in a new idea often there's a big lag before you start to see the benefits of it because it's not been embedded and students are really focused on the structure of the idea versus the content of the idea. When you when you try and make a change you've got to be aware of this honeymoon period and aware of this kind of you know value of latent potential so you may only see whether this is working it may take a month or something like that, if it's not working that's a month's gone by. If people know they're being studied they try harder at whatever the thing is I think traditionally it was kind of factory workers and their productivity It's