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Wikipedia: Hawthorne Effect

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The English-language Wikipedia article on the Hawthorne effect, describing the Western Electric Hawthorne Works studies and their interpretation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wikimedia Foundation
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
2
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Wikipedia: Hawthorne Effect
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Claims Backed By This Source (25 claims)

This source backs 25 claims across the atlas. As facts: 16 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 3 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Studies and Experiments, 10 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 3 general references.
  • Open Questions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
  • Psychological Phenomena, 2 claims: 2 holds.

Scholarly debate

1

Studies and Experiments

Holds

3

Psychological Phenomena

Studies and Experiments

General References

4

Studies and Experiments

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