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Companies headed by introverts performed better in a study of thousands of CEOs

• inputcoffee 10y ago
  An effect size of 2% is pretty small. Very curious as to what time period we mean here. Some other confounding variables: 1. introverts happen to be more common in the industries that did well during this study. (say media vs. energy) 2. a few highly extroverted people might be throwing off the whole study 3. the effect size is so small it could just be significant at 95%. Can we check 99% confidence?
  • ErikVandeWater 10y ago
    Not only that, but even if we were sure it had a moderate effect on all companies, it still may be the case that particular industries will be better suited with extroverted CEOs.
• theodorewiles 10y ago
  survivorship bias. introverts have to be better to become CEOs in the first place.
  • paulddraper 10y ago
    That's not really survivorship bias.