E02¶


Research	R0007 — AI Made Everyone Faster
Run	2026-03-19
Claim	C003
Source	SRC01
Evidence	SRC01-E02
Type	Analytical

The 2014 paper is conceptual, not the source of the 229-sample statistic.

URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/peps.12054

Extract¶

The 2014 paper "Star Performers in Twenty-First Century Organizations" (Aguinis & O'Boyle, Personnel Psychology, 67, 313-350) is described as discussing how "changes in the nature of work in 21st-century organizations have led to the emergence of star performers." It is characterized as a conceptual/review paper that argues for recognizing power-law distributions, not a new empirical study with 229 samples.

Relevance to Hypotheses¶

Hypothesis	Relationship	Strength
H1	Contradicts	The 2014 paper is conceptual, not the source of this statistic
H2	Supports	Confirms the claim conflates two different papers
H3	N/A	Does not address whether the statistic is real

Context¶

The Aguinis research program produced multiple papers: the 2012 empirical paper, a 2014 conceptual paper, and a 2016 empirical follow-up. The claim appears to conflate the 2014 and 2016 papers.