[LINK] o/t Beware fatheads in business

[Tom Koltai]

A couple of observations...

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> <http://theconversation.edu.au/study-links-face-shape-to-lying-2217>
> 
> 
> Men with wide faces are more likely to lie and cheat to get 
> ahead than 
> their narrow-faced brethren, according to new research.
> 

Most Corporate Directors in Australia have wide faces... Ooops. (;P)

> However, the study has drawn criticism from psychologists who 
> say it may 
> have underestimated other factors driving behaviour.
> 
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> Dr Semmler also pointed out that the subjects in the first experiment 
> were all from an MBA course.
> 
> "They are hardly likely to be the group most representative of the 
> population in terms of moral behaviour. There is a clear 
> selection bias," 
> she said.

What _is_ she saying ? Could it be that most men that undertake an MBA
do so with the expectation of making more money ?
Or is she saying that an MBA is not a real course and therefore
obviously its participants were looking for the shortest path to wealth
and are therefore somehow predominantly unethical ?
Which of course leads us to, are all shortest path variations amoral ?

Sometimes politically correct ambiguity is an unfortunate double edged
sword. (err, that's a ;-))

TomK (Now keenly scanning political appointees for wide bodied, full
faced individuals that are also MBA graduates, and male).