A recent article in the Scientific American (off line for maintenance when I composed this, so I can't give a link) pointed to this abstract of a paper about the effect of testosterone levels on willingness to take risks.
"Using a sample of 98 men, we find that risk-taking in an investment game with potential for real monetary payoffs correlates positively with salivary testosterone levels and facial masculinity"
I wonder if that may be part of the reason some societies appointed Eunuchs to many of the senior administrative positions. Putting eunuchs in place of the financial operators who got the banks into such a mess, could just be the first step; our political leaders too might usefully be cut down to size.
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