In thinking about the causes of the shakeout, men are more likely than women, by a 70% to 64% margin, to believe risk-taking among Internet investors has contributed to the dot-com slump. Likewise and by the same margin (59% to 53%), men are more likely to believe weak business plans have played a role in the downturn. As for youthfulness of dot-commers being a problem, men are more likely to say this played a major role in firms’ problems (by 42% to 36%).