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Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men by throwaway2245 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:25PM (#25783628)
Even if I agree, you're citing this as a measure of general/overall health, so testosterone levels are not specifically implicated.

High testosterone levels in men are linked to much higher heart problems, a major cause of early death.

Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men by jeffreyrogers on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:10PM (#25784286)
If health has declined and testosterone levels have declined then absent any other information I am going to assume that the decline in testosterone is at best uncorrelated with health. Now, maybe there is a reason to assume that lower testosterone levels are actually healthier but I'm going to trust my eyes for the time being.
Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men by throwaway2245 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:28PM (#25785207)
By almost any measure, global health has improved and global testosterone levels have declined.

Absent any other information, you should therefore assume...

Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men by bordercases on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:42PM (#25786740)
At the same time you are hiding information by taking the global average as the proper baseline for comparison. This is disingenuous here because the original study picked a US cohort. The factors that are responsible for global health indicators improving might be, at least in principle, cancelled out in the US.