R0007/2026-03-20/C001/S02
WebSearch — Criticism and rebuttal of O'Boyle Aguinis power law findings
Summary
| Field |
Value |
| Source/Database |
WebSearch |
| Query terms |
O'Boyle Aguinis 2012 criticism rebuttal normal distribution performance Beck Beatty Sackett |
| Filters |
None |
| Results returned |
10 |
| Results selected |
3 |
| Results rejected |
7 |
Selected Results
| Result |
Title |
URL |
Rationale |
| S02-R01 |
Beck, Beatty, Sackett 2014 — Wiley |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/peps.12060 |
Primary critique paper |
| S02-R02 |
Beck et al. 2014 PDF |
https://gwern.net/doc/economics/2013-beck.pdf |
Full text of critique |
| S02-R03 |
Power laws in performance (Spain 2017) |
https://gwern.net/doc/statistics/order/2017-spain.pdf |
Broader review of performance distribution debate |
Rejected Results
| Result |
Title |
URL |
Rationale |
| S02-R04 |
Semantic Scholar — O'Boyle & Aguinis |
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/THE-BEST-AND-THE-REST |
Already captured in S01 |
| S02-R05 |
ResearchGate — Distribution of Job Performance |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259555034 |
Duplicate of S02-R01 |
| S02-R06 |
Wiley — O'Boyle & Aguinis 2012 |
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x |
Already captured in S01 |
| S02-R07 |
ResearchGate — O'Boyle & Aguinis |
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263263095 |
Already captured in S01 |
| S02-R08 |
Aguinis author page |
https://www.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/PPsych2012.pdf |
Already captured in S01 |
| S02-R09 |
Cumulative Advantage 2016 |
http://ww.hermanaguinis.com/pdf/PPsych2016a.pdf |
Different paper, used in C003 |
| S02-R10 |
Google Scholar lookup |
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup |
Search portal, not a source |
Notes
This falsification search successfully identified the primary scholarly critique (Beck et al. 2014), which challenges the interpretation but acknowledges the departures from normality.