In an excellent post earlier today, co-blogger Arnold, discussing “Suits vs. Geeks” in the financial industry, writes:
I don’t think female executive minds are as capable of the same pathology.
That’s crying out for a counterexample. Here’s mine. Listen to what former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.
Nov 5 2010
David points to an example in which Madeleine Albright is willing to see Iraqi children die, presumably because of American policy. That may be cruel, but it is not an example of the pathology that I was describing. What Angelo Mozilo or Roland Arnall would have done would have been to deny that their policies were c...
Nov 5 2010
Arnold cites Karl Smith's "demographic data that support my last-stand-of-the-WORST pre-mortem of the election." But even on a naive extrapolation of Karl's data, this "last stand" will last decades:Democrats only won the two youngest age brackets. In twenty years, they'll be in their thirties and forties -...
Nov 4 2010
In an excellent post earlier today, co-blogger Arnold, discussing "Suits vs. Geeks" in the financial industry, writes: I don't think female executive minds are as capable of the same pathology. That's crying out for a counterexample. Here's mine. Listen to what former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says.
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Hyena
Nov 5 2010 at 12:32am
I think what Prof. Kling is underestimating how much “suit culture” selects for certain personality types more than gender. Aggregately, women might be less prone to this sort of sociopathy but if we’re going to play omnipotent dictator, we may as well start selecting for personalities directly.
I also doubt a natural increase in women would have any effect: the women who rise to the top will be much the same as the scum there now. Again, even if there are fewer in the female population, selection systems are probably powerful enough to find them.
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