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R0007/2026-03-19/C003/S01

Research R0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster
Run 2026-03-19
Claim C003
Search S01

WebSearch — Aguinis 2014/2016 heavy tails 229 samples 82.5%

Summary

Field Value
Source/Database WebSearch
Query terms Aguinis 2014 "Star Performers" 82.5 percent 229 samples heavy tails
Filters None
Results returned 10
Results selected 3
Results rejected 7

Selected Results

Result Title URL Rationale
S01-R01 Conductors and Insulators (2016 PDF) http://ww.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/PPsych2016a.pdf Contains the 229 samples statistic
S01-R02 Star Performers (2014 Wiley) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/peps.12054 The 2014 paper cited in the claim
S01-R03 Star Performers (2014 PDF via Gwern) https://gwern.net/doc/economics/2014-anguinis.pdf PDF of the 2014 paper

Rejected Results

Result Title URL Rationale
S01-R04 ResearchGate - Cumulative Advantage https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267831027 Duplicate reference
S01-R05 Semantic Scholar - O'Boyle Aguinis 2012 https://www.semanticscholar.org/ Different paper (2012)
S01-R06 PsycNET entry https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-13853-001 Metadata only, no new info
S01-R07 Heavy tails in entrepreneurship https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352673423000768 Different topic
S01-R08 Team Performance paper https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.2022.1619 Different paper
S01-R09 Scientometrics paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-016-2072-5 Different paper
S01-R10 Ernest O'Boyle Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zOyJDggAAAAJ Profile page, no specifics

Notes

The 229 samples/82.53% statistic consistently maps to the 2016 paper, not the 2014 paper.