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Dark Effort

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Conservation of Group Project Effort: Empirical Confirmation That Total Work Done Is Independent of Group Size

Beaulieu MQ, Whitlock SR.

Journal of Irreproducible Sociophysics. 2026;19(3):303-318.

Total work done equaled 1.0 SN across all group sizes (R² = 0.98). Per-capita contribution fell as 1/N. We detected a dark-effort component — a member who 'researched options' but produced nothing observable — present in 100% of groups.

PMID: 81930319 · Cited by 7,455 ·Original Research