> Education will not a alpha male make.


The Hard Data on Alphas

> In a series of three validation phases, we studied 1,507 subjects, all of whom worked full time in the business world, many in high-ranking leadership positions, 63.79% were male, their average age was 41.2, and they hailed from 106 nations and worked in hundreds of different industries.

> Overall, our data show that alpha traits correlate with being male, with increasing levels of education, with low anxiety, with supervisory positions, and with type A personality traits. The propensity for having alpha risks relates to being male, to higher levels of stress and tension, and to a lack of self-reflection. In other words, the prototypical alpha is a well-educated man with managerial experience and the hard-driving, urgent intensity of a type A. 

> The most troublesome alphas are men who are under a high degree of stress and are not inclined to introspection. High alpha scores correlate strongly with anger, impatience and competitiveness, and the scores for anger and impatience are significantly higher in men than in women.

Ludeman, K., & Erlandson, E. (2006). Alpha male syndrome. Harvard Business Press.

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