No relationship between testosterone and risk aversion: A meta-analytic review
(www.sciencedirect.com)
from Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 19 May 23:03
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from Aatube@lemmy.dbzer0.com to world@lemmy.world on 19 May 23:03
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/69136297
Basically testosterone does not appear to encourage risk-taking. Other outlets:
- nautil.us/the-unbelievable-strength-of-the-testos…
- psypost.org/the-testosterone-myth-large-analysis-…
- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41638539/
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Pretty surprising finding. I guess untangling myth from fact for these sort of conventional wisdom can be difficult.
Correlation strikes again? Turns out it’s just how we’re raising boys?
We endorse risk-seeking behavior and self-destruction in those with male traits. It shows up a lot more prevalently before the prefrontal cortex is fully formed.
Yeah and it varies by culture too.
Something must be causing it since males take greater risks than females. This also applies to animals.
The “study” is pointless
They said “no one has studied this”, searched old studies, and then said “no one has studied this”.
Anyone that thinks that means there isn’t a connection, don’t know what “meta-analysis” means or the basic ways the scientific community speaks…
Which apparently is a lot of people on Lemmy because they just blindly upvoted it
This is “absence of evidence isn’t the evidence of absence” all over again…
It’s not a new study, it’s a review of prior studies…
So all it proves, is that no one has empirically proven the connection yet, which was the reason they did this literature review in the first place.
Research like this can be done by a single person without leaving their desk, in an average work day. The link even shows you the three searches they ran… It wasn’t the scientific equivalent of “googling it”.
It doesn’t prove anything, except how many people blindly up ote and don’t understand science.
Or “world news” which this apparently is?