Mental models/Variable Reward
Motivation & Engagement

Variable Reward

B.F. Skinner's finding that variable ratio reinforcement schedules — where rewards come unpredictably — produce the highest and most persistent rates of behaviour.

In plain language

Unpredictable rewards create stronger engagement than fixed ones. The possibility of a reward is more motivating than the certainty of one.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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