From the course: Improving Your Thinking
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Assessing your sources
From the course: Improving Your Thinking
Assessing your sources
- If you've been around corporate training or taken a seminar on women in the workplace you've probably heard that statistic. The one that says that women will only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the criteria, while men will apply for the same position, if they only meet 60% of the criteria. Most famously quoted in Cheryl Sandberg's infamous 2013 book Lean In, this statistic has certainly made the rounds but is it true? So when I tried to find the source of the statistic I was never able to locate a reliable study or hard data. Instead, I found a really excellent blog post by Curt Rice telling his story of trying to find the same information. Trace to its source, this oft repeated statistic is based not on a study that could be replicated but a series of interviews at just one company, HP. It's not a proven fact. It's more of, as Rice, hopefully puts it antic data. In other words, while you might already know to be skeptical of Wikipedia, you could still be being tricked by data…
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