{"id":5126,"date":"2010-10-20T09:53:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/20\/poll-the-peter-threshold\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:53:54","slug":"poll-the-peter-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/20\/poll-the-peter-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: The Peter Threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a sort of follow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/how_many_incompetent_teachers.php\">yesterday&#8217;s post asking about incompetent teachers<\/a>, a poll on what you might call the &#8220;Peter Threshold,&#8221; after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Principle\">Peter Principle<\/a>. Exactly how many incompetent members can an organization tolerate?<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"http:\/\/static.polldaddy.com\/p\/3955967.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/poll\/3955967\/\">The acceptable level of incompetence in any organization (that is, the fraction of employees who can&#8217;t do their jobs) is:<\/a><span style=\"font-size:9px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/polldaddy.com\/features-surveys\/\">Market Research<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>This was prompted by <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/how_many_incompetent_teachers.php#comment-2867152\">one commenter&#8217;s estimate<\/a> that 30% of business managers are incompetent, which seems awfully high to be acceptable, particularly in the business world where, we&#8217;re told, incompetents are regularly fired without ceremony. And by the fact that I have two lectures to prep today, and can&#8217;t spare the time for more substantive blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sort of follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s post asking about incompetent teachers, a poll on what you might call the &#8220;Peter Threshold,&#8221; after the Peter Principle. Exactly how many incompetent members can an organization tolerate? The acceptable level of incompetence in any organization (that is, the fraction of employees who can&#8217;t do their jobs) is:Market&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/10\/20\/poll-the-peter-threshold\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poll: The Peter Threshold<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13,28,137,24,82,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","category-politics","category-polls","category-silliness","category-socialscience","category-society","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}