MGHC02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reward System, Endangerment
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On the folly of rewarding a while hoping for b: main notion. Organisms seek to find out what acts are rewarded, and then do. Official goals are vague, general & don"t indicate the decisions that must be made to achieving them. Operative goals are higher in quality, they are lower in acceptance than official (vague) goals. Ppl want to hear operative goals, but politians want acceptability so they use official goals in order to be elected. General public could refuse to elect those who use official goals instead of operative, but they don"t. They punish those who provide specifics abt where money comes from. Assume that the primary goal of the organization is to win, while the primary goal of the individual is to go home alive. Personally rational behaviour by those at the bottom will endanger goal attainment of those at the top. Doesn"t have to - depends on the way the reward is set up.
