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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 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.