Scientifically (all those studies referred to in the first post) you are right there are some returns for extra hours. But the *quickly* diminish, to the point where after 2-3 weeks you are actually producing less work than in a 40 hour week.
So two or three weeks of crunching can be an effective remedy to schedule slippage. Of course that's not what we're talking about wrt EA. They're talking about 70-80 hour weeks for MONTHS. As a great article put it, "that's not just abusive, it's stupid".
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Scientifically (all those studies referred to in the first post) you are right there are some returns for extra hours. But the *quickly* diminish, to the point where after 2-3 weeks you are actually producing less work than in a 40 hour week. So two or three weeks of crunching can be an effective remedy to schedule slippage. Of course that's not what we're talking about wrt EA. They're talking about 70-80 hour weeks for MONTHS. As a great article put it, "that's not just abusive, it's stupid".