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undulation on Sept 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Rejected internal job applicants are twice as like...

Interesting but is this surprising? I imagine a good portion of those looking for an internal transfer are yearning for a change; once rejected internally, the only place to look is beyond your current company...

joiguru on Sept 3, 2021 [–]

Surprising-ness is a not a good metric to measure social/psychological science research by. Often a statement and its opposite can be intuitive.

If the opposite result was stated here one could have easily come up with many "intuitive" explanations.

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