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" Good managers have roughly twice the impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers a
by worldvoyageur 2y ago
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Good managers have roughly twice the impact on team performance as good workers. People who nominate themselves to be in charge perform worse than managers appointed by lottery, in part because self-promoted managers are overconfident, especially about their social skills. Managerial performance is positively predicted by economic decision-making skill and fluid intelligence – but not gender, age, or ethnicity.
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- willmadden 2y agoThey did an adequate job on experimental design around randomness within their test population, but they did a completely inadequate job randomly selecting the population pool itself. You really can't extrapolate their findings to the general workforce because of this.
- granularity 2y agoExactly: > Participants were recruited from the Essex University Economics Lab sample pool. ... The median participant was a graduate student with two years of work experience. Hard to see how econ grad students play-acting boss says much about the kinds of long-term relationships / group dynamics that appear in the wild.
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- Purplehermann 2y agoHow could anything be positively predicted by gender? More seriously, selection effects should be much stronger than gender, age and ethnicity, and yet there should still be some correlation in one direction or another, wish there were power and confidence values given
- tracker1 2y agoThere are natural tendencies based on gender. That said, they tend to overlap between the two, but become more extreme at the edges of a given bell curve. For example, in strength, if you take an equal group of men and women, then half of all men are likely to be stronger than all women and half of all women are likely to be weaker than all men in the group. Meaning half intermingle and overlap. The same is true for some psychological traits. These aren't absolutes though. I don't think it should generally be a consideration for a given position myself, but there are absolute differences in most cases.
- SoftTalker 2y agoI have found women to be better managers than men overall, just my experience but it has been across several different employers. I am male, BTW.
- rowanG077 2y agoYou mean things like grip strength? Or even personality traits like aggressiveness? A ton of things correlate with a specific gender.