Self-study
Most people who have taken a seminar for building organizational skills in the workplace have indeed become more organized as a result; however, despite having become more organized, few have become any more efficient.
"Surprising" Phenomenon
Why do so few people become more efficient after taking an organization skills seminar, even though many become more organized?
Objective
The correct answer will be a hypothesis that highlights a key difference between how the seminar affects organization and how it affects efficiency. This difference will show a positive effect on organization and either a negative effect or else no effect on efficiency, leading to an overall increase in organization but not in efficiency.
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This doesn't explain the seminar’s effect on organization and efficiency. We need an explanation of how the seminar improves organization and reduces or does not affect efficiency to show why it increases organization but not efficiency overall.
b
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The stimulus only addresses people who do take the seminar; the skills of those who don't are irrelevant. We know most people were more organized after the seminar, and we need an explanation for why they weren't also more efficient.
c
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It doesn’t matter for whom the seminars are designed or who takes them. Instead, we need an explanation of the seminar’s results by showing its positive effect on organization and its negative or neutral effect on efficiency.
d
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Regardless of who takes the seminar or what that person’s organizational skill level is before taking the seminar, we know that most people were more organized after the seminar. We still need an effect of the seminar that explains why they weren’t also more efficient.
e
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After taking the seminar, a person spends more time organizing, becoming more organized but less efficient. This explains how the seminar positively affects organization and negatively affects efficiency, overall increasing organization but not efficiency.