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Comment by dlss

The result here isn't what you said:

> taken individually, immediate minor punishments are as effective as major punishments

The result here is that frequent minor punishments are 72% more effective than infrequent major punishments (see the article on Hawaii's 5 year study of this approach linked to by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10064425).

parent dlss 11 years ago

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