A new study finds that sex and environment, not just age, strongly influence hearing sensitivity in diverse human populations.

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    5 days ago

    women have an advantage over men in activities requiring endurance, such as running

    https://www.runnersworld.com/races-places/a20823734/these-are-the-worlds-fastest-marathoners-and-marathon-courses/

    This apparent advantage doesn’t seem to play out in the real world.

    I’ve criticised several similar papers in the last few years, one of which was retracted. So far I have seen flawed methodology, cherry picking evidence and ignoring widely available data on uncontacted hunter gatherer societies.

    This doesn’t seem like quality research and that’s just at a glance.

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      and that’s just at a glance

      That’s a you problem. As it turns out, science isn’t based on glances and vibes.

      It’s plainly evident that taking any person with high testosterone and getting them to train at a physical activity will almost always result in better performance than training a person in the same way with lower testosterone.

      The papers talk about the evidence based on ordinary, presumably nonspecialised individuals, not cherry-picking a few thousand people who have trained in such a way that testosterone can make its difference over time.

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        5 days ago

        It’s not a me problem just a statement of fact that I haven’t spent hours going over the paper and its references yet.

        You think that people who were living in hunter gatherer societies didn’t experience enough physical exertion for testosterone to play a signficant role in their physical performance?

        Otherwise you’re just talking completely out of context… which is what the authors did in the paper you linked.