Content Calendars: Do They Help or Hurt?

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1. 29 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Corrected 4 citation errors: an unverified '3.6 times more likely' statistic attached to Teresa Amabile's real Progress Principle research; implementation-intentions research misattributed to Roy Baumeister when it is actually Peter Gollwitzer and Paschal Sheeran's work, with an altered effect size (r=.55/90 studies vs the real d=0.65/94 studies), plus an unmentioned major replication controversy affecting Baumeister's ego-depletion theory; a historical-creative-productivity analysis misattributed to Adam Grant when the underlying research is Dean Keith Simonton's 'equal-odds rule' (Grant cites it in Originals but did not conduct the analysis); and a '20-40% of productive time' task-switching statistic misattributed to 'Mark et al., 2008' when it actually originates from Meyer, Evans, and Rubinstein's research.

   What the page claimed

   Article cited specific researchers and statistics for productivity and creativity research that were either unverified, misattributed to the wrong researcher, or presented without disclosing a significant subsequent replication controversy.

   What was corrected

   Corrected the Amabile statistic to match the real, verifiable finding; reattributed implementation-intentions research to Gollwitzer and Sheeran with the correct effect size, and added a note on the ego-depletion replication controversy; reattributed the historical-creative-productivity finding to Simonton; reattributed the task-switching statistic to Meyer, Evans, and Rubinstein.

   Why: Real researchers were credited with each other's findings, one unverified statistic was added, and a significant scientific controversy (ego-depletion's replication failure) was omitted - a mix of fabrication and citation-swapping errors found across this batch of legacy articles.

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