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> 3,000 U.S. Air Force captains at a military base in Alabama following the link given to the research shows it was actually 222 captains...

cowpig 2y ago
Also "222 captains at a specific air force base in Alabama" is not exactly a simple random sample representative of the broader population. "Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams" is not a conclusion you can draw here, even if those terms were well-defined (and they are not, at least not in front of the paywall).
- jvanderbot 2y ago
  You're right, but don't you think it's interesting that of all places, the military would select for intuition and introversion? That kind of defies, well, intuition. The other thing that is tempting about the study is that the military does have lots of leadership, organizational, discipline, and political demands that are probably as bad as or worse than any corp. And add to that the low pay compared to corps.
  - floobertoober 2y ago
    I think those attributes might be distributed differently in USAF officers than other branches
WillPostForFood 2y ago
You are reading it wrong. An MTS is basically a team. There were 3,108 participants allocated to 222 teams. Participants: Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our sample) for the duration of the course,
metaphor 2y ago
Critical reading: 222 multiteam systems Blindly decomposing the buzzword: - team := at least 2 individuals - multiteam := at least 2 teams That's a naive implied floor of 888 individuals in context. It isn't difficult to infer that the Alabama installation in question is Maxwell AFB. But where on Maxwell AFB can one realistically find a high concentration of captains? Squadron Officer School[1]. Reasonable? Sure; I think the authors very easily pass the sniff test here. [1] https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SOS/ https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SOS/

cowpig 2y ago

Also "222 captains at a specific air force base in Alabama" is not exactly a simple random sample representative of the broader population. "Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams" is not a conclusion you can draw here, even if those terms were well-defined (and they are not, at least not in front of the paywall).

jvanderbot 2y ago
You're right, but don't you think it's interesting that of all places, the military would select for intuition and introversion? That kind of defies, well, intuition. The other thing that is tempting about the study is that the military does have lots of leadership, organizational, discipline, and political demands that are probably as bad as or worse than any corp. And add to that the low pay compared to corps.
- floobertoober 2y ago
  I think those attributes might be distributed differently in USAF officers than other branches

WillPostForFood 2y ago

You are reading it wrong. An MTS is basically a team. There were 3,108 participants allocated to 222 teams. Participants: Our sample consisted of 3108 Captains in the United States Air Force who participated in a five-week leadership development course. They were randomly assigned to a 14-person MTS (there were 222 systems in our sample) for the duration of the course,

metaphor 2y ago

Critical reading: 222 multiteam systems Blindly decomposing the buzzword: - team := at least 2 individuals - multiteam := at least 2 teams That's a naive implied floor of 888 individuals in context. It isn't difficult to infer that the Alabama installation in question is Maxwell AFB. But where on Maxwell AFB can one realistically find a high concentration of captains? Squadron Officer School[1]. Reasonable? Sure; I think the authors very easily pass the sniff test here. [1] https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SOS/ https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/SOS/