CEO IS A MERITOCRATIC, NOT PRIVILEGED OCCUPATION – IT”S NOT BIAS, IT”S ABILITY A

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289615001300A CEO IS A MERITOCRATIC, NOT PRIVILEGED OCCUPATION – IT”S NOT BIAS, IT”S ABILITY

Across the last two decades ≈ 40% of CEOs were on the top 1% of cognitive ability. Even within CEOs, education/ability was associated with company gross revenue. Becoming and performing as CEO can be considered a difficult mental test battery.

(I want to add that above the upper 1% line, men vastly outnumber women, which is why men vastly outnumber women in all extremes of life.)