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> It'd be interested to see what happens if you give the deciders X% of any unused budget as an EOY bonus.

We already know the answer to this, on average at least the system will be gamed to put money in their pockets, to overall detriment of service.

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How do we already know this? Is there actual studies that show this impact?

I don't think we need a study to show the obvious outcome when you set up incentives in certain ways.

Then we're no longer making evidence-based policy. That's just hypothesis-based policy. And unfortunately, humans are reallllly good at rationalizing whatever hypothesis suits their biases.

I’ll need evidence for that claim.

In academia, behavioral psychology is rife with examples if you want to dig deeper. In culture, so is religion.

I think we have a real world test case with the Russian military

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