News Finding: When you have that much clarity around your goal, your chances of hitting the mark increase dramatically.
Paper Finding: The results of this second group of studies indicate that goals without KR are not sufficient to improve performance (2 = 4), but given goals, KR is sufficient to effect performance improvement (1 > 2).
News Context: Setting and meeting larger goals is no different. When you have that much clarity around your goal, your chances of hitting the mark increase dramatically. They recognize when they're procrastinating.
Paper Context: In terms of number of errors, however, the control group's performance was significantly better than that of the goals-only group (4 > 2), suggesting that goals without KR may even inhibit accurate performance. The results of this second group of studies indicate that goals without KR are not sufficient to improve performance (2 = 4), but given goals, KR is sufficient to effect performance improvement (1 > 2). Thus, KR seems necessary for goals to affect performance.