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Jan 5, 2023 · There was a higher proportion of women among black participants compared to white participants (gender differences earlier described). Performance was rated ‘satisfactory’ or ‘unsatisfactory’ to invoke the success and failure conditions. Success was attributed to ability, diligence, luck, task-difficulty, and support on a five-point scale.
Apr 1, 2020 · Fig. 1 shows that in the achievement domain, success and failure often are attributed to an ability factor much like aptitude, an effort factor, task difficulty, luck, mood, and help or hindrance from others. Among these causal ascriptions, in Western culture at least, ability and effort are the most dominant perceived causes of success and failure.
- Sandra Graham
- 2020
Jul 7, 2023 · On average across all the interviews, successful entrepreneurs attributed their success to a somewhat equal combination of luck and skill (mean = 3.09), with a normal distribution of answers across the founders’ responses (see Fig. 1). Respondents that fell into the median range were represented by comments such as, “I think we are lucky, but I think what amplifies that luck and what makes ...
Jun 14, 2021 · These practices lead them into underestimating the power of luck, so that they often attribute success to capabilities and failure to bad luck in people or organizations they see as having the ...
Apr 1, 2004 · Some attribution researchers, particularly those concerned with perceived causes of success and failure, have elicited attributions to the category of “luck”. Presumably, any chance factors impinging upon a success–failure outcome do constitute either good or bad luck—depending upon how things turn out.
- Duncan Pritchard, Matthew Smith
- 2004
Mar 6, 2013 · Michael Mauboussin on the ‘Success Equation’. March 6, 2013 • 20 min read. How do we know which of our successes and failures can be attributed to either skill or luck? That is the question ...
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Findings in the present review support Kelley's (1967) assertion – that success being attributed to ability and failure being attributed to luck – is an over-simplification of the issues at play. Both gender and race have been shown to mediate the direction and strength of attributions made differentially (e.g. Greenhaus & Parasuraman, 1993 ; Knight et al., 2003 ; Sherrod & Goodman, 1978 ).
