By How Much Does The Pomodoro Method Improve Productivity in a Non-Blind Randomized Trial?
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125
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2025
6%
Cohen's d of d<0
29%
Cohen's d of 0<d<0.2
39%
Cohen's d of 0.2<d<0.6
19%
Cohen's d 0.6<d<1.0
7%
Cohen's d 1.0<d

This is a market in a series on markets for possible quantified self experiments I might run.

Context here, in short: I will put up >10 of these markets, run the "best" one (my own judgment, but probably just the one with the highest expected Cohen's d), and a random one (resolving them to the outcome), and will resolve all the others as N/A. In all experiments, I will be using the statistical method detailed here, code for it here.

This trial will not be blinded. As such, even though I try to not form an opinion on its outcome, all kinds of subconscious biases might creep in. Sorry for this confounder while forecasting.

50 samples, 25 intervention (I try to follow the Pomodoro method as best as I can, probably by installing a TAP of some sort), 25 non-intervention (I just try to do work as normally), chosen randomly via echo -e "pomodoro\nno pomorodo" | shuf | tail -1. Expected duration of trial: 2 months.

In general, I measure productivity by a daily retrospective using this script with past data here (more info here).

Past happiness data can be found here.

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I now have collected 17 datapoints for this market.

@NiplavYushtun I've now collected 31 datapoints for this experiment.

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