Some professionals think claiming success is due to their own skills makes them more agreeable
Are you privileged? If so, how privileged? Maybe the issue makes you prickle with discomfort, as it did when two professors asked a former senior partner at a magic circle law firm.
In one experiment quoted in Born to Rule, the authors asked participants to advise a fictitious friend, who had been appointed CEO of a FTSE 250 company, which elements of her background she should include in her profile. More than 86 per cent said she should mention a grandfather who worked in a mine, 63 per cent said to include her headteacher father, while only 38 per cent suggested she cite her private school education. British attitudes to class are famously weird.
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