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Leading money winner with about $3.5 million. >> dana, we could have made all that money. >> yeah, right, i was terrible. do you notice any gender differences in terms of risk when it comes to willingness to risk more money or the daily double, things like that? >> i have talked about that in the past. women it comes to a daily double, seem to want to wager because they figure, oh, this is the household money. this is the grocery money, the rent money. guys say, wait a minute, i'm playing with the house money. i'm not taking any money home unless i win the game. so i can go whole hog on this w...

Leading money winner with about $3.5 million. >> dana, we could have made all that money. >> yeah, right, i was terrible. do you notice any gender differences in terms of risk when it comes to willingness to risk more money or the daily double, things like that? >> i have talked about that in the past. women contestants, when it comes to a daily double, seem to want to wager because they figure, oh, this is the household money. this is the grocery money, the rent money. guys say, wait a minute, i'm playing with the house money. i'm not taking any money home unless i win the game. so i can go w...

Seen women come out ahead in the hedge fund world. it has a lot to do with being steady, not gambling, making long-term reports. >> the report did say that. women have a different kind of risk assessment but they also manage fewer dollars. so maybe innate in that there's less risk. >> they might be staying in longer so you have the potential to make more money. they are more even keeled and have more patience. that in and of itself will lead them to smarter choices, less risk taking, impulsivity. >> interesting. you're the youngest on the panel here. myself as well. also in this report it show...

That's why i think there's something interesting to this study. >> i don't know. i'm usually uncomfortable with most of those sort of generalizations because they're used to bolster sexism, as krystal pointed out. there's considerable research in this field that these gender differences are more about cultural differences and internalized social expectations. a neurobiologist from france talks about at birth, 100 billion neurons are interconnected. the remaining are constructed progressively depending on the influence of the family, education, and culture. that's why we all have different brai...

If we are looking more closely and scientifically at the brain not politically neural disease needs to be addressed. >> that's the pony of thint of kechlt i have spoken with so many scientists, they weren't doing the study on gender differences at all then did the study and found the gender differences. >> so thus what? thus we do what differently. >> i'll tell you thus. what one of the major parts of the world we're all massively concerned about is the arab and muslim world. women are not just third class or fourth class but 20th class citizens. >> they're wasting one half of their population...