Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
by jeffreyrogers on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:10PM
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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.
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Re:Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men
by throwaway2245 on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:28PM
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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
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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.