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10/21/09
How much did this study cost, about a million dollars? #neuroscience
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So, DUH... they're repeating old studies with bad methodology. I guess this is what passes for intellectual at Duke? #neuroscience
10/22/09
I'm going to go with: for the money.
-Kle. #neuroscience
10/21/09
1.i fought 4 guys and they were all big brutes but my little testosterone filled body clubbered em down
2.after that i had sex with 3 girls all at the same time and multiple times too.
3.i am 53 years old but i got tons of that ole testosterone #neuroscience
10/21/09
"Too bad the testosterone increase doesn't transfer to the socialist politicians so they will stand and defend the USA."
Seriously, dude. There's a whole 1 socialist politician in the federal government. His name is Bernie Sanders.
PS Why did the Barr voters' testosterone levels drop? That makes as much sense as if my levels dropped when McKinney didn't win.
"OH NO my third party candidate didn't win an election in a two-party system!" #neuroscience
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10/21/09
Aw rilly?
In other news, women cry more often and longer than men.
(I really read that was news today)
Surprising huh?
We need reinforcements, let's call captain obvious.
Yeah, I read the whole article and it IS bad science, because if you want to prove that the event E lowers trestosterone in group A, you have to compare the group A when E happens, with the group A when E doesn't happen, leaving all the other circumstances unchanged.
The conclusion seems pretty obvious to me, but the methodology is flawed. They should have repeated this with at least two groups of republicans and two groups of democrats, measuring with two differents meethods, one in each group, because maybe chewing gum raises Republicans' testosterone and loweed it in Democrats. And repeated it at least twice, having another day (same week day, diferent week), and measure the difference to a regular week, because maybe Republicans lose more testosterone after their sunday dinner than the Democrats do.
As I say, it seems obvious that disappointment lowers one's testosterone, but this experiment doesn't prove it. #neuroscience
10/21/09
Now, knowing this, liken the Obama-McCain thing to a sporting event; those that win are exhilarated, and have a surge of testosterone. Those that lose take a testosterone-nosedive.
All that junk science make sense now? Good.
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Well, that's not surprising at all, really. Oh well. It's still fun to point and laugh at Republicans; it makes me feel all manly. #neuroscience
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*FISTS!* #neuroscience
10/21/09
But why oh why did they have to announce it the week Colbert was off? #neuroscience
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Or because disappointment lowers it, as some people have pointed in the comments #neuroscience
10/21/09
As for "maybe they were tired," that would have presumably affected democratic voters as well as republican and libertarian ones. Plus, the study already took into account that men's testosterone levels drop normally at that time of day, it seems... So, unless there were actual errors in the way the study was conducted and analysed, being tired alone wouldn't explain the outcome. #neuroscience
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