{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/do-not-claim-a-meeting-nudge-worked-from-awareness-alone",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0390",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Do not claim a meeting nudge worked from awareness alone",
  "summary": "People noticing the meeting more is not the same as the meeting becoming better.",
  "kind": "principle",
  "body": "Measure the intended outcome separately from proximal signals such as awareness, prompt completion or self-reported preparation. A tool can change how people think about meetings without measurably improving effectiveness. Keep both results: the mechanism signal may be useful, but it does not substitute for the outcome.",
  "limits": [
    "The 2026 field experiment tested one specific nudge; a null effect there does not prove every meeting reflection tool is ineffective."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-meeting-intentionality"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-C647205CFB94936F"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "In the 2026 preregistered field experiment, the pre-meeting goal-reflection intervention did not produce a statistically significant improvement in the primary meeting-effectiveness outcome.",
      "source_id": "RS-C647205CFB94936F",
      "role": "limits",
      "note": "A null primary effect in this implementation does not prove that all goal reflection is ineffective.",
      "locator": "Abstract results"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "A new meeting prompt, agenda tool or AI assistant makes people report more reflection but the real outcome is uncertain."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "The 2026 field experiment tested one specific nudge; a null effect there does not prove every meeting reflection tool is ineffective."
  ],
  "example": "If a goal prompt increases preparation awareness but meeting effectiveness does not improve, report both instead of advertising 'better meetings.'",
  "check": "The evaluation can distinguish a changed behavior or perception from the outcome the intervention was meant to improve.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-C647205CFB94936F",
      "title": "Nudging Attention to Workplace Meeting Goals: A Large-Scale, Preregistered Field Experiment",
      "url": "https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/nudging-attention-to-workplace-meeting-goals-a-large-scale-preregistered-field-experiment/"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0390",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0391",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/assume-the-measurement-can-change-the-behavior"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-DC3FB389E54F5C7A",
      "title": "Make meetings answer a goal instead of merely occupying a slot",
      "url": "/collections/make-meetings-answer-a-goal-instead-of-merely-occupying-a-slot"
    }
  ]
}