construct.autonomy predicts construct.task_performance
normal · weakly_informative · 3 studies · N = 43,795
Distribution
Weakly informative prior. This prior is weakly informative. It will nudge your posterior but won't overwhelm it; expect data to do most of the work in modest samples.
Intervals
- Confidence interval (95%) — uncertainty about the mean ρ
- [0.23, 0.30]
- Credibility interval (95%) — distribution of the true effect across settings (the Bayesian prior)
- [0.21, 0.32]
- I² (heterogeneity) — share of total variance from between-study differences
- 90% — the contributing studies disagree almost completely; read the pooled value as a midpoint of conflicting findings, not as one population's effect
The true effect is ~constant across settings — it generalizes.
SD_ρ≈0 — true effect is ~constant across settings; generalizes (observed-score scale until artifact correction, PRN-058)
Evidence provenance
published ρ=0.27 (k=3, high heterogeneity (I²=0.90)); no primary-deployment evidence yet
| Source | ρ (r) | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Published literature | 0.27 | k = 3 · N = 43,795 |
- high heterogeneity (I²=0.90)
- replication: meta-analytic
No primary-deployment evidence yet — this prior rests on published literature alone. As anonymized, aggregated effect sizes from real deployments are contributed, they appear here as a distinct, publication-bias-free source, fused with the literature into a posterior estimate.
Code
Drop this prior straight into your model. Snippets generated from the synthesized distribution + parameters.
target += normal_lpdf(beta | 0.273472, 0.0183193);beta = pm.Normal("beta", mu=0.273472, sigma=0.0183193)brms::prior(normal(0.273472, 0.0183193), class = "b")# base R sample
rnorm(N, mean = 0.273472, sd = 0.0183193)np.random.normal(loc=0.273472, scale=0.0183193, size=N)Parameters
| Family | Parameters |
|---|---|
| normal | I2 = 0.9007, mu = 0.2735, sigma = 0.01832, r_mean = 0.2669, k_studies = 3.000, tau_squared = 0.0008945, fisher_z_bias = -0.005345, r_mean_bare_bones = 0.2722 |
Synthesis
- Method
- random_effects_meta
- Informativeness
- weakly_informative
- Replication status
- meta-analytic
- k_studies
- 3
- n_total
- 43,795
- Last updated
- 2026-07-16T01:06:08.971Z
Quality distribution
| Grade | Count |
|---|---|
| A | 3 |
| B | 0 |
| C | 0 |
| D | 0 |
Source articles
The research this prior is synthesized from — each is a full dossier (findings, the models it informs, and what the literature says).
Integrating motivational, social, and contextual work design features: A meta-analytic summary and theoretical extension of the work design literature.
Performance, incentives, and needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness: a meta-analysis
Contributing effect sizes
Effect-size detail pages land with a later sub-ticket; for now, ids link to the filtered list. Browse all rows via /registry/effects.