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Group C got the same financial incentive, but it was framed as a loss rather than a gain: $1.40 a day is 42 dollars a month, so we gave these participants 42 dollars at the beginning of each month in a virtual account that they could see, and we took away $1.40 for every day they didn't walk 7,000 steps.
The financial incentive didn't work.
But those who had a loss-framed incentive met their goal 50 percent more of the time.
What's worse, when they realized their mistake and they took away the financial incentive, the late pickups still stayed at the high level.
We don't have any incentive to go and resolve it across the U.S. Now where is the car industry on that?
Marketers are tasked with building brands with very limited budget, so there's a little bit of an incentive to categorize people in buckets so they can reach their target faster.
Vestigial traits can persist when there’s no incentive to lose them— but since there’s also no incentive to keep them, random mutations will sometimes still eliminate them from part of the population.
And that means an increase incentive to do research and development, which benefits everyone in the world.
Larger markets increase the incentive to produce all kinds of ideas, whether it's software, whether it's a computer chip, whether it's a new design.
Well if larger markets increase the incentive to produce new ideas, how do we maximize that incentive?
Globalization is increasing the demand for ideas, the incentive to create new ideas.
And higher oil prices mean a greater incentive to invest in energy R&D.
It gives objects what's called incentive salience.
No incentive to report smallpox.
He's seen that it's possible to have a different set of rules, rules where businesses earn a small profit, so they have an incentive to sign up more customers.
You've got an incentive designed to sharpen thinking and accelerate creativity, and it does just the opposite.
This is a category entirely created by consumers that would not have been created by the mainstream bike market because they couldn't see the need, the opportunity; they didn't have the incentive to innovate.
But once the benefit of a social contract became clear to everyone, the incentive to cheat dramatically dropped.
So in the face of that, you really need quite a strong incentive to use condoms.
That wouldn't be such a good incentive for me."
And it provides an incentive for the poor by providing a price increase.
And what would you say to, for example, the, you know, the parent of someone whose son is out serving the U.S. military, and he says, "You know what, you've put up something that someone had an incentive to put out.
And I just look at this, and I think, yes, we could take that so much further by allowing people to set targets by setting calibrated targets, by using elements of uncertainty, by using these multiple targets, by using a grand, underlying reward and incentive system, by setting people up to collaborate in terms of groups, in terms of streets to collaborate and compete, to use these very sophisticated group and motivational mechanics we see.
As most health care systems reimburse practitioners in a fee-for-service-based fashion on the number and kind of treatments performed, it may be this economic incentive that tempts some practitioners to rather perform high-profit surgical treatments instead of exploring other treatment options.
This change of the incentive structure shifts, now, the attention of the complete health care system away from providing isolated and singular treatment options, towards a holistic view of what is useful for an individual to stay healthy and live long.
Because in the long run, the wonder of mathematics will be the incentive and understanding it will be the reward.
The cliché in horrors is about people doing exactly what they shouldn't ( going down into the basement or going up into the attic) Then the trouble ensues Take heed then DON'T watch this film .Show the brains that victims in horror movies never do Stay clear Do not enter .And if you need anymore incentive This film? is as bad as the worst Uwe Boll film I mean ,The house of the dead bad.
The incentive for the family to push the button is heightened by their financial difficulties.
Martin Ritt seems to be a director who was always interested in social issues (as the son of immigrants, he had every incentive to be so, especially since he was blacklisted in the '50s).
I don't normally feel much of an incentive to comment on films I don't like, but in a case like this one, I just have to say something.
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