Get the Job Nov 16 2010  Eloquence in an Interview Is Better
Than Accuracy, Says Study  By julie steinberg  If you're stumped
by a question in an interview, fake it. That's the advice coming
out of a new study from Harvard.  You'll have a better chance of
making a good impression if you respond eloquently and slightly
irrelevantly than if you answer truthfully but with a dozen
"uhs" and "ums" thrown in, according to the study.  Two Harvard
researchers found that a person's likeability increases the more
articulate they are. In the study, they showed subjects videos
from a political debate. In the first video, a candidate answers
the posed question directly and well. In the second, he answers
a similar question, and in the third, he answers it directly but
inarticulately.  Subjects didn't notice when the candidate
answered a similar question -- his likeability only went down a
tenth of a point. But when he answered directly and
inarticulately, subjects liked him less. The audience also
didn't remember if the c