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please recalibrate your irony detector. Thank you.

by fs111 10y ago

dsacco 10y ago
Detected; I reject that it's relevant to the discussion, and I'm disappointed it's the top comment. Lifestyle changes aren't relevant to the research presented in the study. What would be relevant is contrary evidence of hormonal changes in males after their spouses undergo pregnancy, or structural alterations in the brain. Of course each parent is impacted by literally taking care of an infant, but what does that have to do with one gender experiencing grey matter reductions?
- herewegoguys 10y ago
  You must be great at parties
  - frahs 10y ago
    This isn't a party
    - herewegoguys 10y ago
      You take yourself too seriously
  - sctb 10y ago
    We don't comment like this about other users here. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- kaitai 10y ago
  You know what's super-interesting? Although it's deeply under-researched and still subject to a lot of argument, there's mounting evidence that men going through a partner's pregnancy experience significant hormonal changes as well. Papers like [1] and [2] are really preliminary (small sample sizes, etc) and don't fully agree, but both show these hormonal changes in men going through pregnancy with a partner. How much is simply the stress of a life change? How much is couvade, or "sympathetic pregnancy"? How much is evolutionarily adaptive? No one knows yet, but it's an interesting piece to the puzzle: apparently the lower testosterone, higher cortisol, and changes in prolactin and estradiol that expectant fathers experience don't have the same neuroanatomical effects as the changes women experience in pregnancy. Hormones are really interesting! [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.22670/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.22670/abstra... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11393496 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11393496

please recalibrate your irony detector. Thank you.

by fs111 10y ago

please recalibrate your irony detector. Thank you.

Detected; I reject that it's relevant to the discussion, and I'm disappointed it's the top comment. Lifestyle changes aren't relevant to the research presented in the study. What would be relevant is contrary evidence of hormonal changes in males after their spouses undergo pregnancy, or structural alterations in the brain. Of course each parent is impacted by literally taking care of an infant, but what does that have to do with one gender experiencing grey matter reductions?

herewegoguys 10y ago
You must be great at parties
- frahs 10y ago
  This isn't a party
  - herewegoguys 10y ago
    You take yourself too seriously
- sctb 10y ago
  We don't comment like this about other users here. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all. https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
kaitai 10y ago
You know what's super-interesting? Although it's deeply under-researched and still subject to a lot of argument, there's mounting evidence that men going through a partner's pregnancy experience significant hormonal changes as well. Papers like [1] and [2] are really preliminary (small sample sizes, etc) and don't fully agree, but both show these hormonal changes in men going through pregnancy with a partner. How much is simply the stress of a life change? How much is couvade, or "sympathetic pregnancy"? How much is evolutionarily adaptive? No one knows yet, but it's an interesting piece to the puzzle: apparently the lower testosterone, higher cortisol, and changes in prolactin and estradiol that expectant fathers experience don't have the same neuroanatomical effects as the changes women experience in pregnancy. Hormones are really interesting! [1] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.22670/abstract http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajhb.22670/abstra... [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11393496 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11393496