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Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:54PM (#14589395)

No, they are not. None of these studies used FMRI; they were either statistical or behavioral, with no neurological investigation. Did you read the article?

From the article you linked:

"Some people like to use the salmon study as proof that fMRI is woo, but this isn't the case, it's actually a study to show the importance of correcting your stats."

Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:52PM (#14589385)

This is a remarkably low-quality article, and the citations are horrendously scattered throughout. This is much better, and clearer article (cited inside the original) from 2009:

https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/losing_touc...

Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities 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.

Re:Over time, leaders lose mental capacities on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:32PM (#14589217)

erikpukinskis, did you read the article? There isn't a single mention of race (at all). The article is about people in power start making bad decisions, and it's clear this is not restricted to any single race/gender group. see: any conflict, ever, in any country.

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but it doesn't seem like your comment is responding to the article - it's responding to the headline, and you're projecting some things onto it and responding to them. Please don't do that - it's what we see on every other news forum/website, and it degrades the quality of the conversation.