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CEOs Who Cheat on Spouse Twice as Likely to Cheat at Work, Study Shows

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1 day ago: "CEOs Who Cheat in Bedroom Will Cheat in Boardroom: Study (bloomberg.com)": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20656992

This study also, unintentionally, correlates cheating at work with stupidity. Anyone who thought they would find actual women on Ashley Madison was deluded about male-female dynamics in the real world and clearly didn’t understand women. And, anyone who gave a “service” like that personally identifying information was just a fool.

This is the study: https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/29/1905329116

The study says all of the information is publicly available. Where can I find the Ashley Madison data, and how can it be verified?

There was a big, high profile leak.

Would be interesting if this is ever used by a board to oust a CEO:

“We are reducing the likelihood of future errors by removing you”

> “We are reducing the likelihood of future errors by removing you”

It's discriminatory. I doubt this would be legal.

Every decision is a discrimination of an alternative decision.

> "Every decision is a discrimination of an alternative decision."

Let's put aside the whole "at-will employment" (which I doubt applies to CEOs) discussion.

You can't fire someone for cheating on their partner. People are allowed to have personal lives, and they are allowed to make personal mistakes.

If you could fire people for cheating on their partner, why stop at cheating when there are so many other personal life choices/factors that could "put the company at risk"?

TL;DR: A CEO who is dumb enough to get caught cheating on his spouse, is twice as likely the do the dumb things needed to get caught cheating at work.

The business of business is messy. Capitalism will forgive most ethical or even criminal misadventures of it yields profits. That's not capitalism's fault, it's just how humans operate.

TL;DR: Cheaters gonna cheat.

I suppose it could be generalised as "people who cheat on one thing are twice as likely to cheat on a different thing too", or to quote the article directly: "Our study indicates cheating in one context carries over to cheating in others".

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