How we judge the mistakes of male vs. female leaders

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. There are many layers of fail in this article

1) The study was designed to examine attitudes toward leaders who screw up, by creating fictional stories and providing them to 284 undergraduates (selection bias much?)
2) when the study found that attitudes were generally either gender neutral, or more harsh on male leaders, the study authors attribute the result to a failure in their own study methodology. (expectation bias, anyone?)
3) Jena McGregor, the author of the WP article, concludes this way:

And while on some level, it’s encouraging to see that women aren’t getting more harshly judged for being emotional or not relating well with people, the underlying story here is that gender bias is still very much alive.

This paragraph should be exhibit #1 in the Wikipedia entry for "Oxymoron".