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Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities by andai on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:37PM (#14588742)
I can't access the research, but I was wondering if they tested on mostly men or if there was a decent size female group as well, and if they found any difference between men and women in this regard.
Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities by dsfyu404ed on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:26PM (#14589165)
If men were more susceptible in a statistically significant way they would have called it out at least as a "further research needed" because it opens the door for future resource allocation. If women were more susceptible in a statistically significant way they wouldn't have framed the discussion so negatively in terms of CEOs and world leaders but instead framed it as a health issue because doing anything else in most academic settings is being needlessly reckless and unprofessional.

Since there's no mention whatsoever I'm betting there was no meaningful difference or the test group wasn't big enough to investigate the possibility of said difference.

Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities by r-u-k-m on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:46PM (#14589337)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jofi.12432/full

They don't talk about it in any sentences, but they found that female CEOs correlate with having slightly higher stock volatility (1.612). Not sure if this is a valid interpretation, as I'm reading from a table.

N = 8533 CEOs, btw.