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IF the character and causation of fatigue following highly skilled work are to be understood, the first need is for the discovery of more relevant and experimentally controlled facts. Unfortunately, almost all? the investigators who have attempted to study fatigue of this type have adopted methods taken over with very slight change from those which have proved valuable in the study of simple muscular fatigue. They have chosen elementary operations usually considered to require some ‘mental’ effort-such as easy calculations, word, or colour recognition and naming and the like-have repeated these operations over and over again for long periods, and have tried to express the resulting fatigue in terms of the diminution in quantity or quality of the work done.
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BARTLETT, F. Fatigue Following Highly Skilled Work. Nature 147, 717–718 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147717a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147717a0