The minimum mean paradox: A mechanical explanation for apparent experiment aversion

Meyer et al. (1) propose that people object to “experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies” (their title). In our own work (2), we arrive at the opposite conclusion: People “don’t dislike a corporate experiment more than they dislike its worst condition” (our title). In this letter we reanalyze the 7 studies in table 1 of ref. 1, for they most closely resemble ours. We conclude that the evidence for experiment aversion is caused by a...