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This is really the great insight of science: the irrelevance of social status as a determinant of truth. Science was all about replacing mammalian hierarchy games with observation, experiment, and reason in determining the truth. People don't appreciate it much now, but this was really totally new. It had never been done before.

If someone very "alpha male" thinks the world is flat, it is still round. The universe doesn't give a shit about your status.

Neither does the market, really.

Business... or at least business done well... is a science. It's about minimizing and maximizing and optimizing and iterating. It's about building a good fit to a market, and lots of details.

Machismo can be beneficial in certain contexts, but it's not fundamental. You're spot on about analytics and data-driven rational thought.