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Testosterone

gowld 9y ago
It's always interesting to see that there's a segment of the public discourse that consistently hammers on "melanin" as a predictor of crime, but ignores "testosterone"....
- TempAc 9y ago
  > It's always interesting to see that there's a segment of the public discourse that consistently hammers on "melanin" as a predictor of crime, but ignores "testosterone".... It's interesting to see the strawmen from people who were never interested in getting acquainted with the arguments to begin with. >Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher. Both these differences were statistically significant. Adjustment by analysis of covariance for time of sampling, age, weight, alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and use of prescription drugs somewhat reduced the differences. After these adjustments were made, blacks had a 15% higher testosterone level and a 13% higher free testosterone level. A 15% difference in circulating testosterone levels could readily explain a twofold difference in prostate cancer risk." Testosterone level differences between human groups has been a known fact for quite some time. As is the case for the different ages for puberty onset: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/us-study-boys-puberty-earlier https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/us-study-boys-... > The investigation also showed that American boys are divided by race when it comes to puberty. It found that, on average, black American boys started showing signs of puberty at a little older than the age of nine, while their white and Hispanic counterparts did likewise just after turning 10. And even gestational age : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15075154 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15075154 > The median gestational age at delivery was 39 weeks in Blacks and Asians and 40 weeks in white Europeans. We are going to pay for all this wilful ignorance and happy sentiments your kind has imposed on the rest of us in the west.
  - dang 9y ago
    Between the copy-paste-ready talking points and the personal attack, this account is violating the HN guidelines and we've banned it. This is not a site for ideological battle. When a topic is divisive and ideologically charged to begin with, conversation here needs to become more thoughtful, not less. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
scythe 9y ago
The OR for "male" is also low... Just higher than the others.

Testosterone

It's always interesting to see that there's a segment of the public discourse that consistently hammers on "melanin" as a predictor of crime, but ignores "testosterone"....

TempAc 9y ago
> It's always interesting to see that there's a segment of the public discourse that consistently hammers on "melanin" as a predictor of crime, but ignores "testosterone".... It's interesting to see the strawmen from people who were never interested in getting acquainted with the arguments to begin with. >Mean testosterone levels in blacks were 19% higher than in whites, and free testosterone levels were 21% higher. Both these differences were statistically significant. Adjustment by analysis of covariance for time of sampling, age, weight, alcohol use, cigarette smoking, and use of prescription drugs somewhat reduced the differences. After these adjustments were made, blacks had a 15% higher testosterone level and a 13% higher free testosterone level. A 15% difference in circulating testosterone levels could readily explain a twofold difference in prostate cancer risk." Testosterone level differences between human groups has been a known fact for quite some time. As is the case for the different ages for puberty onset: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/us-study-boys-puberty-earlier https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/20/us-study-boys-... > The investigation also showed that American boys are divided by race when it comes to puberty. It found that, on average, black American boys started showing signs of puberty at a little older than the age of nine, while their white and Hispanic counterparts did likewise just after turning 10. And even gestational age : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15075154 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15075154 > The median gestational age at delivery was 39 weeks in Blacks and Asians and 40 weeks in white Europeans. We are going to pay for all this wilful ignorance and happy sentiments your kind has imposed on the rest of us in the west.
- dang 9y ago
  Between the copy-paste-ready talking points and the personal attack, this account is violating the HN guidelines and we've banned it. This is not a site for ideological battle. When a topic is divisive and ideologically charged to begin with, conversation here needs to become more thoughtful, not less. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

scythe 9y ago

The OR for "male" is also low... Just higher than the others.