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Oh my goodness "Wide faces as a proxy for testosterone levels" Nice! I'm sure sock colors would work as a predictor of investment success just as well. What
by sova 9y ago
Oh my goodness "Wide faces as a proxy for testosterone levels" Nice! I'm sure sock colors would work as a predictor of investment success just as well. What trash. The Economist is a thinly veiled pseudoscience brochure these past few years. Maybe it's always been that way and I'm just now noticing, but I used to find value in their articles and not just pseudoscientific trash.
- isolli 9y agoI don't know that you can dismiss it offhand... http://sandrarose.com/2016/06/higher-testosterone-levels-leads-to-manly-faces/ http://sandrarose.com/2016/06/higher-testosterone-levels-lea...
- zone411 9y agoExcept that there are real studies showing an association between wide faces and testosterone levels: http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(13)00027-5/abstract http://www.ehbonline.org/article/S1090-5138(13)00027-5/abstr... and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114283/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114283/. It's not a great proxy though.
- calvinbhai 9y agoCan the results of these studies be replicated by a completely different research team? If yes, then good. It is believable. Anything else, then it is to be taken with a generous helping of salt. I consider it a clickbait headline playing on gender biases.
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- acct1771 9y agoOff-topic, but this popped into my head as something relevant to The Economist (specifically jabbing at them), and this community. https://steemit.com/economist/@subscription/fact-checking-the-infamous-1988-economist-cover-get-ready-for-a-world-currency https://steemit.com/economist/@subscription/fact-checking-th...