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Challenges and pitfalls of Cinderella-izing descriptive statistics in Table 1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2021

In-Sue Oh*
Affiliation:
Fox School of Business, Department of Human Resource Management, Temple University
*
Corresponding author: Email: insue.oh@temple.edu

Abstract

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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology

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Footnotes

I would like to thank Frank Schmidt for his insightful comments and his endless support. He will be sorely missed, and forever remembered.

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