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BY CHRISTIAN BRYANT

ANCHOR CHRISTY LEWIS

Liar liar pants on fire -- but do liars get hired? And, are those liars more likely to be men? A new study from Columbia University says men might be getting more high-paying jobs than women because of exaggeration.

Fox News has the details.

Alisyn Camerota: “Columbia Business School did a study on how men’s overconfidence — their inflated sense of themselves — led them to get promoted.”

Clayton Morris: “Over women!”
Alisyn Camerota: “They gave them a test and then they asked men to report how they did on the test.”

Researchers asked both men and women to report on their test scores a year after taking tests. Results showed that both parties overestimated their performance, but, on average, men rated their performance 30 percent higher than they actually performed -- women, 15 percent higher.

The International Business Times has more info on the study’s implications.

“Men’s ‘honest’ overconfidence may help explain why they dominate the C-suite (i.e. corporate leadership positions.”

But Jena McGregor for The Washington Post is skeptical of the study. She writes,

“Women’s under-representation in top jobs is a complex issue involving decades of history, societal issues and innate realities that can’t be simply explained by seeing how MBA students react under the microscope.”

The issue is made more complex by the new November jobs report, which indicates that men are still getting hired -- while women have stopped trying. CNN Money has the details.

“The government's latest jobs report Friday showed a surprisingly large split between men and women … In November, men got jobs. Women stopped looking ... 438,000 women left the labor force … The number of women with jobs fell by 214,000, but the unemployment rate declined because fewer women were looking for work.”

But CNN says that split might exist because men took a bigger hit in employed during the Great Recession, while women worked in more recession-proof industries.