{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "id": "progress-monitoring-goal-attainment-meta-2016",
  "canonical_url": "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/evidence/progress-monitoring-goal-attainment-meta-2016/",
  "json_url": "https://brali-lifeos.github.io/evidence/progress-monitoring-goal-attainment-meta-2016/index.json",
  "decision": "support-existing",
  "decision_label": "Supports existing guidance",
  "reviewed_at": "2026-09-11",
  "reviewed_by": "Brali Evidence Reviewer",
  "source": {
    "title": "Does monitoring goal progress promote goal attainment?",
    "url": "https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000025",
    "type": "meta-analysis",
    "doi": "10.1037/bul0000025",
    "citation_text": null,
    "study_design": null,
    "population": null,
    "intervention_or_exposure": null,
    "outcomes": []
  },
  "supported_claim": "Increasing progress monitoring improves goal attainment on average; physically recording or reporting progress was associated with larger effects.",
  "unsupported_or_overstated_claims": [
    "Daily tracking is uniquely optimal.",
    "Streaks or public leaderboards are universally beneficial.",
    "More monitoring is always better."
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "The meta-analysis combines heterogeneous goals, populations and monitoring interventions, so the pooled effect does not identify one optimal metric, cadence or tracking interface.",
    "Larger effects associated with physically recording or reporting progress do not establish that public leaderboards, streaks, social accountability or any specific app feature is universally beneficial.",
    "The evidence supports increasing useful progress monitoring on average, not maximal monitoring; excessive or poorly chosen measurement can still create burden or metric gaming.",
    "The synthesis does not validate Brali's exact checkpoint wording or determine which proxy measure is best for a particular user's goal."
  ],
  "target_hack_ids": [
    "visible-progress-monitoring"
  ],
  "target_protocol_ids": [
    "brali:visible-progress-monitoring"
  ],
  "risk_flags": [],
  "notes": "Evidence backbone for existing tracker/progress surfaces. Prefer one measurable progress variable at a task-appropriate checkpoint over indiscriminate tracking."
}