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Jia Hu and colleagues hypothesized that workplace leaders who reflect on lessons learned from past mistakes are likely to exhibit more humility than leaders who don't engage in such reflection. To test this, the team placed 301 managers in one of three groups. Participants in two experimental groups were asked to reflect on a mistake, one group focusing on a mistake that resulted in learning and the other group focusing on a mistake that didn't result in learning. Participants in a control group were asked to reflect on their daily routine. All the participants then described how they would respond to a workplace scenario. After evaluating the responses for evidence of humility, the researchers concluded that their hypothesis was correct.
Which choice best describes data in the graph that support the researchers conclusion?
The managers who reflected on a past mistake that resulted in learning exhibited more humility on average than the managers in the other two groups did.
A
None of the three groups' average humility scores exceeded 3.5.
B
The managers in the control group exhibited only slightly less humility on average than the managers in the two experimental groups did.
C
All three groups exhibited less humility on average than the researchers expected.
D