Incentive Design Failures Explained
Soviet nail factory paid by weight produced useless heavy nails. Cobra breeding bounty in India increased cobras. Metrics drive unintended gaming.
What was corrected
Article cited specific institutions, studies, and statistics for real researchers, companies, and events that, on independent verification, were either anachronistic, unverified outright, or materially altered from documented figures.
Corrected Gneezy/Rustichini's affiliations to their real 2000-era institutions; removed the unverified Stack Overflow and Google statistics while preserving the real underlying dynamics they illustrated; corrected the Cleveland Clinic percentile to the real documented figure and removed the unverified study citation and unverifiable statistics; corrected the Nucor citation to accurately describe Shipper and Manz's real body of work and corrected the inflated compensation percentage; replaced the unverified RAND attribution with the real Eterno and Silverman source.
Why this is better
This was one of the most citation-dense articles in the batch; real researchers, institutions, and events were used as anchors for included an unverified studies, unverified statistics, and one anachronistic affiliation error - the Benabou/Tirole and Kerr citations in the same article verified as accurate.