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I thought it was an interesting premise going into the article, but the individual results are all over the map, and vary a significantly between men and women

• cultureswitch 4y ago
  They say specifically that this is actually a point in favor of the association. The reason being that men and women deal with stress in diametrically opposed ways (they cite two other studies) and that being infected increases the stress response behaviors in both sexes.
• notahacker 4y ago
  Yeah. My initial thought was "it's going to be very hard to unpick any possible causal relationship of Toxoplasmosis to political affiliation from likely regional and income level variation in Toxoplasmosis, and this study doesn't even control for those. It's also a study with a low number of participants, and none of the political factors are statistically significant for men and statistically significant for women. Surprised it was published tbh, although I guess it's better to publish inconclusive results to interesting hypotheses than encourage p-hacking...