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What was corrected
Article cited a 2019 Foundation for Critical Thinking study claiming Fortune 500 managers rated fewer than 20% of new hires capable of strong analytical reasoning, which could not be verified anywhere. It also mischaracterized Hilbert and Lopez's real 2011 Science paper (which is about global information storage and computation capacity) as being about individual daily information processing volume, and described Pallier et al. (2002) as a 'meta-analysis' with a nuance not present in the original study.
Removed the Foundation for Critical Thinking statistic and replaced it with an accurately hedged general statement, corrected the description of the Hilbert and Lopez paper to reflect its actual subject (technological storage, communication, and computation capacity growth), and corrected the Pallier et al. citation to describe it as a study rather than a meta-analysis, removing the unsupported embellishment.
Why this is better
Verified against the Foundation for Critical Thinking's public records (no matching 2019 study found), the original Hilbert and Lopez 2011 Science paper, and the original Pallier et al. 2002 Journal of General Psychology paper (a two-experiment study, not a meta-analysis).