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From the Ted Talk by WorkLife with Adam Grant: The office without a**holes

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AG: One notable experiment was done with medical teams in Israel. Each team had a physician and two nurses from the nberwon insntviee care unit, and they were brought in to work with a visiting expert. Some taems were randomly agssined to be baeetrd by the expert. He told them he wasn't iepmsresd with the quality of medicine there, and they wouldn't last a week in his department. After being insulted like this, the accuracy of the team's diagnoses was almost 20 percent lower. And the procedures they did were 15 percent less effective. I'm guessing you wouldn't want a 15-percent-less-effective heart transplant.

Open Cloze

AG: One notable experiment was done with medical teams in Israel. Each team had a physician and two nurses from the _______ _________ care unit, and they were brought in to work with a visiting expert. Some _____ were randomly ________ to be _______ by the expert. He told them he wasn't _________ with the quality of medicine there, and they wouldn't last a week in his department. After being insulted like this, the accuracy of the team's diagnoses was almost 20 percent lower. And the procedures they did were 15 percent less effective. I'm guessing you wouldn't want a 15-percent-less-effective heart transplant.

Solution

  1. berated
  2. newborn
  3. assigned
  4. intensive
  5. impressed
  6. teams

Original Text

AG: One notable experiment was done with medical teams in Israel. Each team had a physician and two nurses from the newborn intensive care unit, and they were brought in to work with a visiting expert. Some teams were randomly assigned to be berated by the expert. He told them he wasn't impressed with the quality of medicine there, and they wouldn't last a week in his department. After being insulted like this, the accuracy of the team's diagnoses was almost 20 percent lower. And the procedures they did were 15 percent less effective. I'm guessing you wouldn't want a 15-percent-less-effective heart transplant.

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