Hhhm. I think it might be worthwhile putting MBA students’ minds at rest about this.
Yes, there is a connection between male alopecia (or male pattern baldness) and high testosterone levels. However, those high levels don’t come from either being ambitious, doing an MBA or, indeed, anything else that people might think of doing.
Baldness is caused by a recessive gene (thus one that you must inherit from both parents, like blue eyes). It just so happens that said genes also predispose you to high testosterone levels: there isn’t even the direct connection between the testosterone and the baldness.
Correlation, not causation, in the jargon, something I’m sure will be of comfort to MBA students everywhere, both male and female (on the assumption that even if the female students don’t worry about going bald they would prefer not to be surrounded by men obssessing over it).
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