• ILikeBoobies
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    8 days ago

    It’s about men but your takeaway would be that women are smarter because as IQ goes up, Testosterone goes down

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      8 days ago

      this graph very clearly states it’s only related to men and has nothing to do with women at all. the only thing it shows is that the majority of men have average intelligence and average testosterone levels. R2=0.19 value means only 19% of the variation in testosterone levels can be explained by IQ, leaving 81% unexplained. This is a very weak relationship, bordering on statistical noise.

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          7 days ago

          The thing about very superficial analysis like this is you can just go fishing for correlations and come back with something meaningless but publishable.

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            7 days ago

            That exploitation of the scientific system is not what’s happening here. This is naive maybe, but not malicious, and it seems valid and without unwanted motives.

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      8 days ago

      His takeaway is that women are as smart as men (as in the IQ is the same) but because men have higher testosterone holding them back men are actually smarter than women. What I think he’s actually trying to say is that he’s a high testosterone misogynist.

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        8 days ago

        Your conclusion is based on deduction which in many occasions - like this one - leads to false conclusions. Try again.

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        8 days ago

        If that is someones takeaway they are wrong. This chart essentially shows that these things are not actually correlated.

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          7 days ago

          Look. I don’t make the rules of misogyny. You want things to make sense, you need to look elsewhere.