The reading by Stern and Kalof was a nice reminder of concepts I remember learning in 102 and in AP Statistics my senior year of high school. Reading about surveys especially brought me back to Stats because we had so many discussions about why many surveys actually don’t provide valid data. There are so many factors that one has to consider when making a survey that it almost drives you nuts; for example, how will the survey be delivered? If it’s through phone, you have to consider that some people might not own a landline. If people don’t pick up, that also affects the data. If it’s interviewing in public, the sample you get at a mall versus outside of a bar will get a different demographic, so you have to consider if the sample you’re getting is representative or not.<\/p>\n
I was really fascinated by the von Reuden reading. The discussion of SSSs and LSSs reminded me of the book Big Fish, and the comparison of the metaphor of being a big fish in a small pond or a big fish in a big pond. It made me think of the SSSs and LSSs in my life. If you think of a household as an SSS, mine reflects what happens in an LSS, in that my dad makes more money, has more of an alpha male personality, and is the confident one that makes the ultimate decisions. It makes me wonder how that has affected the way I perceive what I leader is. Since I’ve gone to a liberal high school and college and have been exposed to progressive ideas from a young age, I think that would have altered any initial traditional ideas of leadership in my subconscious. Still, according to this paper, despite our beliefs, the leaders that actually show up in LSSs are more traditional.<\/p>\n
My second thought from this reading is how do we change what a leader looks like to what society looks like? How do we get more women to be leaders, and more people of color? We all know by now that a leader doesn’t always have to be tall, over-confident, and masculine with aggressive tendencies. In fact, I remember reading last year that people prefer a leader not to look like that. What’s holding us back, and how can we fix it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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