That Title oughta bring in the readers!

So, i'm walking past the big TV hanging over the elevator at work and CNN has this byline at the bottom of the screen, "Women with high testosterone levels take more business risks" like that's a good thing.

Two things occur to me:

1) Ladies, next time they send you in for a drug-test? that ain't what they're looking for.

2) It has already been established by several billion data points that high testosterone has a 1:1 correlation to risk-taking, a.k.a. stupidity. So the above is not big news. The big news would be, "Hormone XYZ is found to produce smart risk-taking when combined with high testosterone levels."

Now maybe these  studiers of risky women just assume that everyone should know that testosterone + woman = smart risks. If so, i am insulted. That doesn't answer the question: what hormone should I get down to Mexico for that would reduce my own problem with stupidity? And which would make me a smarter risk taker?

But wait! This occurs to me: if we took all the women out of the judges' booths, then most male risk taking would appear much less stupid. Like when you view those YouTubies of skateboarders emasculating themselves on power-pole guy wires, all us guys applaud and laugh heartily, eh? You with me? And when some MBA at Citibank realizes that his loans to Mexico and Venezuela are going bad because their oil has too much sulphur, and this 52nd-floor MBA uses $50k from his expense account to pay an Iranian fighter pilot to shoot an Exocet at an American aircraft carrier, thus shutting down all Gulf oil to have a war, us guys think that's way-cool, eh?

I think these studiers of risky women have some questions to answer. I'm no expert, having taken very few opportunities to study risky women.