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They show that traders and fund managers throughout Wall Street receive their
massive remuneration for doing no better than would a chimpanzee flipping a coin.
Belinda Board and Katarina Fritzon tested 39 senior managers and chief
executives from leading British businesses. They compared the results to the
same tests on patients at Broadmoor special hospital, where people who have
been convicted of serious crimes are incarcerated. On certain indicators of
psychopathy, the bosses's scores either matched or exceeded those of the patients.
... it seems to me that if you have psychopathic tendencies and are born to a
poor family, you're likely to go to prison. If you have psychopathic tendencies
and are born to a rich family, you're likely to go to business school.