> 
> 	If you're saying that he doesn't demonstrate a _negative_ correlation,
> then I agree with you and am not sure one exists. 

Then we are agreed, because he doesn't.



What the experiments
> demonstrate is payment vs non-payment (for complex tasks).

Yes, in on stage talk, the 'candle problem' gives a clearer comparison 
of those opposing motivators


> 
> 	However, I think what he's trying to say is: Give people a fixed salary
> (because they need money), but then don't offer specific performance
> based rewards. In a sense, they wouldn't really be working on any given
> task for a specific reward, but merely as part of their work.
> 
> 	So I think he's contending that if the task in the talk was given to
> people as part of their job with no special rewards, they'd do it faster
> than if it was given to people on the job, but told that they'd get a
> bonus if they do it quickly.
> 

Yeah, the stage talk comes off as much more pragmatic and purposeful in 
its focus and less as if he is trying to set himself up as some sort of 
prophet of the open-source movement, (way after the fact of the 
open-source movement)

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