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The incentives of procrastination

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The incentives of procrastination. How do varying incentives for procrastinating affect work?. Incentives. Work time. Blogs Social Networking TV/online videos Exercise Video/online gaming Memes Listening to music. Time spent on assignment Time spent procrastinating - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The incentives of procrastination

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How do varying incentives for procrastinating affect

work?Incentives Work time•Blogs•Social Networking •TV/online videos•Exercise•Video/online gaming•Memes•Listening to music

•Time spent on assignment•Time spent procrastinating•Estimated time saved•Sleep time

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Middle School

1 hour 2 hours

3 hours

4 hours

5 hours

6 hours

7 hours

8 hours

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2

3

4

5

6

7

Time spent on major assignment

6th grade7th grade8th grade

Num

ber

of s

tude

nts

6th grade: 3.6 hours7th grade: 6.3 hours8th grade: 4.2 hours

1 hours 2 hours 3 hours 4 hours 5 hours 6 hours 7 hours 8 hours0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Hours spent procrastinating

6th grade7th grade8th grade

Num

ber

of s

tude

nts

6th grade: 2.5 hours7th grade: 2.8 hours8th grade: 1.8 hours

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High school

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Hours spent procrastinating

9th grade10th grade11th grade12th grade

Num

ber

of s

tude

nts

9th grade: 1.5 hours10th grade: 2.5 hours11th grade: 4.2 hours12th grade: 3.5 hours

9th grade 10th grade 11th grade 12th grade0

0.5

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1.5

2

2.5

3

3.5

4

4.5

High school time spent on major as-signment

9th grade: 4 hours10th grade: 4 hours11th grade: 5.4 hours12th grade: 5.3 hours

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Comparison in grades 6-12

6th grade

7th grade

8th grade

9th grade

10th grade

11th grade

12th grade

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Procrastination VS Time Spent

Time for assignmentTime spent procrastinating

Aver

age

num

ber

of s

tude

nts

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Time spent procrastinating

Time to complete assignment

•Trade-off of procrastination time and work time

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10%

19%

26%3%

19%

23%

6th grade

BloggingSocial networkingTV/online vidExerciseVideo/online gameMemesMusic

33%

38%

5%5%5%

14%

7th grade

Blogging Social networkingTV/online vid ExerciseVideo/online game

Memes

Music

31%

29%6%

16%

2%

16%

8th grade

BloggingSocial networkingTV/online vidExerciseVideo/online gameMemesMusic

26%

35%3%

6%3%

26%

9th grade

BloggingSocial networkingTV/online vidExerciseVideo/online gameMemesMusic

6%

24%

26%6%

8%

8%

22%

10th grade

BloggingSocial networkingTV/online vidExerciseVideo/online gameMemesMusic

8%

19%

27%12%

8%

27%

11th grade

BloggingSocial networkingTV/online vidExerciseVideo/online gameMemesMusic

6%

25%

25%14%

11%

6%

14%

12th grade

BloggingSocial networkingTV/online vidExerciseVideo/online gameMemesMusic

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6th grade

7th grade

8th grade

9th grade

10th grade

11th grade

12th grade

00.5

11.5

22.5

33.5

44.5

5

Hours spent for social networking and watching

videos

Social networkingWatching videos

6th gr

ade

7th gr

ade

8th gr

ade

9th gr

ade

10th

grade

11th

grade

12th

grade

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Procrastination VS Time Spent

Time for assignment

Time spent procrastinating

Aver

age

num

ber

of s

tude

nts

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6th grade 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade 10th grade

11th grade

12th grade

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Procrastination VS Work times

Time for assignmentTime spent procrastinating

6th grade 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade 10th grade

11th grade

12th grade

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Procrastination VS Work times

Time for assignmentTime spent procrastinatingEstimated time saved

62% 68% 44% 35% 36% 32% 30%

6th grade 7th grade 8th grade 9th grade 10th grade

11th grade

12th grade

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

Procrastination VS Work times

Time for assignmentTime spent procrastinatingEstimated time saved Sleep time

Increase in grade level…

•Better allocation of time

• Work load / length

• Sleep time

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As grade level increases…

Work time

Procrastination time

Time saved

Sleep time

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Two types of incentive

What affects appeal of procrastination through grades?

Changes in procrastination methods?

•Length/level of assignments

• HS +, differing • MS - , change to 9th grade

•Ability to manage time

• Time spent on assignment • Estimated time saved

•Stronger incentive for future

•Constant increase:

• SNS

• Watching videos

•Similar trade-off

• Time spent procrastinating

• Time spent on assignment