You Time Someone Completing a Single Task the First Time

question 29

True/False

You time someone completing a single task the first time at 100 minutes, and the fourth time they do the task it takes 81 minutes. You should use a 90 percent learning curve to estimate the length of time this worker will take to complete this task in the future.

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Definitions:

Correlation

A measure indicating the extent to which two or more variables fluctuate together, which can be positive, negative, or zero (no correlation).

Demand Characteristics

Cues in an experiment that suggest to participants what behavior is expected, potentially influencing the outcomes of that experiment.

Falsifiable

A principle that a hypothesis or theory must be capable of being proven false in order to be considered scientific.

Testable Predictions

Hypotheses or statements that can be verified or falsified through experimentation or observation.