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Wikipedia Can't Identify Satire.

Like the Dunning-Kruger "Effect," which Wikipedia also gets completely wrong, the Peter "Principle" is not any "a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter." It is a satire on the fatuous rhetorics of management, self-improvement, and lunatic positivity which litter the pretend-academia of the popular press.

The authors of this article fall for it, open-eyed, faces in search of a pie.

The article should be withdrawn and replaced with one identifying the satire.

David Lloyd-Jones (talk) 15:43, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

The article literally says it's satire in the second paragraph of the lede. Richard75 (talk) 17:11, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

The article says it is "a concept in management", which doesn't sound like satire. How it was intended to be satire is not made clear in the article if, as you say, the article recognizes it as satire (which it doesn't) 162.246.139.210 (talk) 20:18, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

Alternative hypothesis

Someone found that the higher up you go the less work people do and the less competent they are. We don't really need an "effect" to explain how competent people suddenly become incompetent when they're promoted or whatever. It would be more straightforward to assume that the higher-ups in every organization are simply magnificent bullshitters who faked their way to the top. Of course, nobody would fund a study that comes to this conclusion, so we have to do some mental gymnastics to figure out why organizations tend to be run by incompetent people 162.246.139.210 (talk) 20:20, 31 July 2025 (UTC)

The talk page is just for discussing improvements to the article, not the subject of the article. Richard75 (talk) 20:41, 31 July 2025 (UTC)