Crafting a Strong Interview Answer: Personal Story

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1. 19 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   Fixed an internal contradiction on When Notes Fly's interview-answer guide: a blockquote presented a paraphrased idea from Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You" inside quotation marks as if it were a direct quote, while the attribution line itself said "paraphrasing" - quoted but admittedly not a quotation.

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   Blockquote, in quotation marks, presented as if directly quoting Cal Newport's "So Good They Can't Ignore You," while the attribution line itself said "paraphrasing" underneath it - quoted but admittedly not a quotation.

   After

   Removed the quotation-mark framing and the false-direct-quote presentation; converted to attributed-in-spirit prose with an explicit caveat that it is a paraphrase, not a direct quotation from the book.

   Why: The article contradicted itself: text was set inside quotation marks as if directly quoted from Cal Newport, but the attribution line beneath it said "paraphrasing." A quote cannot simultaneously be quoted and admittedly not quoted. Fixed by removing the quotation-mark framing.

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2. 11 July 2026 · corrected by Emir Baycan

   2 corrections applied: Unverified citation; real thin-slice interview work is Prickett, Gada-Jain & Bernieri (2000) | No 'Murphy, Hill, Dennis, Ramsey & Yopchick (2007) Personnel Psychology' paper exists; real attribution is Prickett, Gada-Jain & Bernieri (2000)

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   Murphy, Hill, Dennis, Ramsey, and Yopchick (2007) Personnel Psychology paper on forming judgments; the application to interviews came through Murphy, Hill, Dennis, Ramsey, and Yopchick

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   Prickett, Gada-Jain, and Bernieri, thin-slice interview research; the application to interviews came through Prickett, Gada-Jain, and Bernieri (2000)

   Why: Live article body already correctly cites Prickett, Gada-Jain, and Bernieri (2000) throughout, including in the FAQ answer about interview openers. Verified no remnant of the unverified Murphy/Hill/Dennis/Ramsey/Yopchick citation anywhere; a legitimate, different Murphy et al. (2015) reference remains in the bibliography for an unrelated topic.

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