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New study finds women have more sensitive hearing than men, regardless of age or environment (www.psypost.org)

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A new study finds that sex and environment, not just age, strongly influence hearing sensitivity in diverse human populations.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As you've spotted, good hearing is advantageous to everyone.

However the men hunting/women gathering stereotype is increasingly regarded as wrong or at least simplistic.

https://phys.org/news/2023-10-prehistoric-gender-roles-women-hunters.html

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

women have an advantage over men in activities requiring endurance, such as running

https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20823734/these-are-the-worlds-fastest-marathoners-and-marathon-courses/

This apparent advantage doesn’t seem to play out in the real world.

I’ve criticised several similar papers in the last few years, one of which was retracted. So far I have seen flawed methodology, cherry picking evidence and ignoring widely available data on uncontacted hunter gatherer societies.

This doesn’t seem like quality research and that’s just at a glance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

and that's just at a glance

That's a you problem. As it turns out, science isn't based on glances and vibes.

It's plainly evident that taking any person with high testosterone and getting them to train at a physical activity will almost always result in better performance than training a person in the same way with lower testosterone.

The papers talk about the evidence based on ordinary, presumably nonspecialised individuals, not cherry-picking a few thousand people who have trained in such a way that testosterone can make its difference over time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's not a me problem just a statement of fact that I haven't spent hours going over the paper and its references yet.

You think that people who were living in hunter gatherer societies didn't experience enough physical exertion for testosterone to play a signficant role in their physical performance?

Otherwise you're just talking completely out of context... which is what the authors did in the paper you linked.