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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
See the other thread. Incentives do work--I can assure you as a professional economist. If you know something more is at stake, you'll change your priorities. I don't want to rehash everything I said in the other thread because there's extensive discussion about how this would change team's behaviors and why.
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I think the argument is that the only teams who see something as being at stake (the only ones you're incentivizing) are those in the high-preforming cohort that's already most likely to be helping the community. Teams in other situations will continue (ostensibly) to benefit more from directing their efforts elsewhere, vis-a-vis the the precieved step improvement in performance that results from helping other teams.
I don't know that I agree with the attempted ubiquity of the generalization, but I do agree that the cohort whose behavior might be affected by this incentive is not over-large.