Ben Casnocha writes an interesting post titled "Absent Fathers, Supportive Mothers," citing "...there is evidence that many successful male leaders had strong, supportive mothers and rather remote, absent fathers..."
I'm curious as to how much evidence there is on this issue (e.g. how many leaders were examined? how is "leader" defined?). Does anyone know of a link to a study done on this research? One interesting idea (that I believe is already being worked on) is to post biographies and stories of people on the Internet and do analytics on it. (Hah, I'm all about running the numbers.) There's all sorts of connections that can be made by studying one's past.
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