Final Blog Post
Thinking about the way attendance was governed I believe it did have an impact on my attendance rate. I feel I definitely had more will to show up to class when the bonus points were in effect at the beginning of the year as the five points were worth showing up to class and completing a quick survey afterwards, especially as these are things I should be doing already. Even though the points stopped halfway through the year I feel I showed up to more classes than I would have because of the earlier bonus points. I had gone to enough classes and had been interested enough to want to continue going to them, but even if I hadn't been interested I think I still would have gone to more classes after the points were discontinued as I had built a relationship with a class and felt somewhat obligated to continue showing up for most sessions. This also makes me think about risk aversion. We talked about people choosing between two options, either being assured $10 or having a 50% cha