Expert Oppinon on Reward and Punishment Is The Following Correct
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Reward and punishment is the idea that people perform better when
offered rewards, or when threatened with punishment. Both ideas are
now generally believed wrong in psychology although they persist in
many kinds of politics, especially those based on hate, specifically
"punishing bad people" to create fear of being considered such a bad
person.
Regression towards the mean is one explanation of why people believe
"punishment works" when it provably does not: after a good
performance, the next performance is most likely to be worse. A
reward
is not likely to make someone able to perform much better than their
current best, so, rewards appear not to work. However, after a bad
performance, the next performance is most likely to be better. Thus
punishment will be perceived to work, even if the better performance
has nothing to do with it and it is simply a "more average"
performance.
People who do not understand, or claim not to understand, this, are
common in political life, but they have no credibility at this point,
and stems from a pain and pleasure view of self.
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John Kane
> Reward and punishment
> From Simple English Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can
> change
>
> Reward and punishment is the idea that people perform better when
> offered rewards, or when threatened with punishment. Both ideas are
> now generally believed wrong in psychology although they persist in
> many kinds of politics, especially those based on hate, specifically
> "punishing bad people" to create fear of being considered such a bad
> person.
>
> Regression towards the mean is one explanation of why people believe
> "punishment works" when it provably does not: after a good
> performance, the next performance is most likely to be worse. A
> reward
> is not likely to make someone able to perform much better than their
> current best, so, rewards appear not to work. However, after a bad
> performance, the next performance is most likely to be better. Thus
> punishment will be perceived to work, even if the better performance
> has nothing to do with it and it is simply a "more average"
> performance.
>
> People who do not understand, or claim not to understand, this, are
> common in political life, but they have no credibility at this point,
> and stems from a pain and pleasure view of self.
It is sheer gibberish.
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada