At one end of Cambridge we have Larry Summers dissing the ladies for not being hardcore math nerds. While the women are using their mediocre math skills to become surgeons, corporate lawyers, corporate leaders (go Carly Fiorina!), McKinsey consultants, etc., what are the guys doing? I went to the other end of Cambridge to find out, i.e., to the police station. At the Cambridge (Massachusetts) Police Station there is wall where they keep photo binders of perpetrators. One large bookcase was filled with photos of white males. Another large bookcase, equal in size, was filled with photos of black males. A third bookshelf was only partially filled up with miscellany: Asians, Hispanics, a small section for black females, and just one or two binders of white females. According to http://cambridgema.usl.myareaguide.com/census.html, white males constitute only about 35% of the Cambridge population and black males about 6%. Yet these two groups apparently account for almost all of the criminals who get caught. Either women are too busy in Med school or they are able to avoid being apprehended in their crimes because their minds aren’t wandering off thinking about differential geometry problems.
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Yup, high testosterone tilts your brain development away from social skills and towards physical/spatial skills. More importantly, it also increases aggression.
Get a bunch of people with below average social skills and above average aggression and it’s no wonder they’ll go to jail more often. One study looked at men imprisoned for violent offenses and found they had high levels of testosterone and low levels of serotonin. Reminds mne of Mike “they put me on the Zoloft to keep me from killing y’all” Tyson.
“white males constitute only about 35% of the Cambridge population and black males about 6%”
And black men also have higher levels of testosterone than whites. Hmmm… maybe it’s not *all* due to social effects.
(go Carly Fiorina!)
Yes, go. Go far away.
Hardly a shining example for women, or for executives in general. Unless you think demonstrating that women can be as shallow, arrogant, self-serving and destructive as male executives in our star-worshiping, sycophantic corporate culture is an achievement.