Hawthorne effect - rubbish or still relevant?

A useful article that covers the mis-interpretations

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/02/the-hawthorne-e.html

that links to 2 interesting studies

http://jech.bmj.com/content/42/3/304.abstract

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=8859912&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google

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