Response To The Hawthorne Experiment

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Hawthorne experiment basically illustrates that what we have knowledge of, is based on our conditions and observations. However, he would not be able to get an accurate account of the working conditions because the workers knew that they were being observed. This experiment would give an inaccurate description of the knowledge we have of different working conditions. We can try but the world as we perceive it is just based on how we interpret things around us. For example, many different students will have different answers to this very question. We understand and interpret things differently. There will be no right or wrong answers because if I know the world in a certain light and someone experiences it differently neither is the true definition

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