Study Shows Democrats Turn More Conservative When Given Testosterone Treatment 😂
Study Shows Democrats Turn More Conservative When Given Testosterone Treatment 😂
So, this study from Claremont revealed a fact that is not surprising to almost anyone.
Found the scientific paper based (PDF) on that study.
I won't even comment on it other than to say, as usual, the headline is wrong.
The study linked in the article only has the abstract available but it does suggest that "testosterone induces a 'red shift' among weakly-affiliated Democrats". I can't see any of the methodolgy, but even if we go ahead and say that this outdated 2011 study is fine, what conclusions can we draw?
First thing is that it only found these associations with "weakly aligned" democrats, which is already a pretty narrow slice of the population. It doesn't surprise me that an idiot on the fence would be swayed by emotion.
Secondly, it seems to suggest to me that conservatives successfully brand themselves as "masculine". So a wishy-washy "weakly aligned" democrat who begins feeling more aggressive would probably resonate more with the party of base aggression and masculine posturing, who founds clickbait news sources with fracking billionaire money to tell rural Americans that drinking too much soy makes you gay and that ruins the country. Yeah, sounds pretty conservative to me.
I wouldn't make much of this article. If believing in equal rights makes me a soyboy then whip out the cock and I'll suck it til justice day.
Nice strawman but the article has nothing to do with equal rights.
The conclusion we can find is declining testosterone levels should be further studied since liberal men tend to be less intelligent, more mentally ill, and less masculine than conservative men. All of these are linked to testosterone.
I could copy the entire thing, but here's an except.
"Our key finding, that T influenced political preferences for weakly affiliated Democrats, contributes to the analysis of political adverting and persuasion. Our previous research using synthetic oxytocin administration to influence political preferences showed that changes only occurred for weakly affiliated Democrats (Merolla et al., 2013). Extending our previous finding, the analysis here showed that weakly affiliated Democrats were persuadable physiologically while strong Democrats and all Republicans were not."
I'm not a scientist, far from it, but it seems pretty straight forward to me. Weakly affiliated dems became more conservative with more T.
Makes me wonder what my T levels are.
Probably low. They have been declining since we started to track them. We already know liberals are less masculine and more likely to be mentally ill. That has been discussed for years.
I think much of that is tied to lower T levels.
https://www.urologytimes.com/view/testosterone-levels-show-steady-decrease-among-young-us-men
Study is linked in the article. You cited a Covid study that nothing to do with testosterone.