I am happy to say that I grow up in an environment which told me I could become (nearly) everything I want. Of course there were still bad man-woman ratios in many jobs, but mainly I was told that if I really want it and train hard I could become (nearly) everything. Maybe this is the reason why I hesitated for days in putting this paper online. What do Roderick E. White, Stewart Thornhill and Elizabeth Hampson tell us? What you become may depend on your biology. More concrete, they found out that there is a correlation between testosterone level and business people. To make a long story short: testosterone, the “man” hormone, makes you accepting more risks and this is important for business. Of course they also point out in the paper that it doesn’t mean that your success in business can be predicted by measuring your testosterone level. However, they claim to have found a correlation. I always try to avoid open criticism in this blog, because it is not fair when a person from a different field of science tries to judge a paper which was written for a different community. I just want to leave this link of a funny website here, and what you conclude from its content, is your choice. http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations "Entrepreneurs and evolutionary biology: The relationship between testosterone and new venture creation."
Roderick E. White, Stewart Thornhill, and Elizabeth Hampson. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 100.1 (2006): 21-34.
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