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Paper Finding: The same narrow range of difficulty (very difficult to moderately difficult) may explain the negative results of using a time sheet computation task.
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Paper Context: found negative results with a jigsaw puzzle task, although their range of goal difficulty was limited: from medium to hard to very hard (actual probabilities of success were .50, .135, and .026, respectively). The same narrow range of difficulty (very difficult to moderately difficult) may explain the negative results of using a time sheet computation task. However, since no group average even reached the level of the moderate goal, the hard goal may have been totally unrealistic.