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When 拢10,000 isn鈥檛 a good incentive
Could no prize have been a better way to motivate snooker player Ronnie O鈥橲ullivan? And how coastlines are actually really hard to measure. Wesley Stephenson finds out.
British snooker player Ronnie O鈥� Sullivan decided not to complete a maximum 147 this week because he said the prize money was too low. 鈥淚f it had been more, I'd have gone for the 147鈥� he told 大象传媒 Sport. Can incentives demotivate as well as motivate people, what makes a good incentive and do they really work?
And how do you measure a coastline? It鈥檚 trickier than you might think.
Presenter: Wesley Stephenson
(Image: Ronnie O'Sullivan. Credit: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty)
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