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A recent empirical study has shown that effort and performance in tournaments are sensitive to the size and distribution of the prizes. This study found that higher prizes lowered the scores in men's professional golf tournaments: raising the total prize money by $100.000 lowered each player's score on average by 1.1 strokes over a 72-hole tournament. Most of this effect occurred in the later rounds of the tournaments when the players are more likely to be tired and so find maintaining concentration more difficult. Also, players' final-round scores responded to the strength of the incentives they faced. Because monetary gain to finishing first rather than second is much greater than the gain to finishing second rather than third (and similarly for all other places), there is a greater marginal return to a player's lowering his final round score by a stroke when he is among the leaders after the first three rounds than when he is back in the pack. In fact, those with a greater return to effort of this sort did do better in the final round, even when other factors influencing their scores are controlled for statistically.
-Journal of Political Economy, 98 "Do Tournaments Have Incentive Effects"

Har de sett på maken, golfspillere presterer best under press.. Det er tydeligvis ikke det samme på vil du bli millionær... ellerno.. og nå er det kanskje på tide å slutte å studere *gjespe*