Scholarly — empirical
Attention Drift in Distributed Teams
Dr. Priya Nathan & Dr. Owen Falk, Journal of Applied Workplace Studies (demonstration citation)
Demonstration content. This citation, journal and finding are fictitious, invented only to show how an empirical Scholarly work looks in the notebook.
Overview
- Type
- Empirical Study
- Purpose
- Review scholarly evidence
- Depth
- comprehensive
- Why reading this
- Sample answer: checking the evidence base before citing distributed-team findings.
Reading status
Completed
100% read · Session 2, full readContextual highlights
“Reported drift was largest in teams with more than four time zones, though the sample cannot separate zone count from team size.”
EvidenceResults, p. 7Confounded variable worth flagging in the limitations page.
Completed analysis page: Sample
Who or what was studied.
- Total N
214
- Population
Knowledge workers on distributed software teams (demonstration figure).
- Recruitment or sampling
Volunteer sampling through partner organisations.
- Characteristics reported
Roughly balanced across seniority; skewed toward engineering roles.
- Who is not represented
No participants from teams smaller than four people.
Concepts tracked
Attention drift
construct
Primary dependent variable in this study.