Spyke
ryedaftreply
sh.itjust.works

Is that the YouTuber that couldn't grow a beard even though he was in his thirties so he had this hormone levels checked and his testosterone was through the roof?

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ryedaftreply
sh.itjust.works

Well, I can't answer that, now can I? There was a YouTube like I described but I don't remember his name.

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lemmy.world

Jep. Pretty sure that’s the one. Don’t think he ever got into what his specific ailment was though. And he hasn’t been all that active lately as far as I remember.

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mander.xyz

I think in one of the lastest videos he had said he was running around various doctors and would have to keep searching, maybe we'll get an update by the end of the year😅

PS. So cool that Styropyro was my thought too, lol

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When I was at OpenSauce last summer, someone asked him about it. I kinda forgot the answer but iirc he said he found a doctor that was helpful and it wasn't causing him any medical issues

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Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?

It's in the video, somebody linked it. He has testosterone over 1,500 and super high SHBG. He's 31 and has never really grown a beard so it's probably always been high. If it's cancer then it's a very slow one. Probably just a genetic variation that produces high SHBG and the body produces more testosterone to compensate. Hard to predict what kind of problems it might give him down the road since it's probably rare.

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Zettareply
mander.xyz

Lmao I'm happy this has so many likes, I was thinking the same thing. Hope he's doing well

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Nojareply
sopuli.xyz

Yes he is, he has aquired 300 additional car batteries btw

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Bro, after that first car battery video, I'm wondering how he's going to deal with the magnetism problem.

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GorGorreply
startrek.website

First thing that came to my mind when I saw the question 'What is his life like?'

He dated Grace Jones

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He was my second thought but I don’t know much of his academia/ethics beyond a cursory glance at Wikipedia.

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He’s as smart as Ben Shapiro thinks he is, and as manly as Andrew Tate thinks he is.

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Lol gettin downvoted just for mentioning him. That goober is like beetlejuice

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not saying it's a bad thing, but probably counter to the image people seem to have in mind in the comments.

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hope he's doing ok, he truly is unlike any other internet personality

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Testosterone Georg, who live in a library and dopes up on T is an outlier and should not have been counted.

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thats blatant discrimination against outliers, I vote the line be tweaked into a third order polynomial that fits the highest points to better fit the data.

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lemm.ee

Is that the laser, electricity, microwave, etc. YouTube channel guy who has a medical condition causing super high testosterone?

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lemmy.world

"YEAH, QUANTUM MECHANICS, BITCH! GARGLE MY QUARKS! ONE IS UP AND ONE IS DOWN SO THEY DON'T COLLIDE!"

*bench presses quantum computer in lab coat, but it is open to show off his abs.

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What must his life be like?

Full of testosterone supplements and cheating.

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Pictured: Outlier (155 IQ, 1650 testosterone ng/dl) carries control (110 IQ, 800 testosterone ng/dl).

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Grumpyreply
sh.itjust.works

I googled but could not find source. I only found more memes based on this graph. Which isn't to say it's fake, could simply be in some research paper hidden away under a paywall. 15k sample is a very big study though.

The graph alone is highly problematic to make any argument though as it doesn't specify other critical axis such as age which would highly change the meaning of this graph. The older you are, T levels fall, but your IQ increases. So age alone can potentially explain the phenomenon we're seeing here.

My attempt to find the graph only resulted in many counter points, however.

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Smart Hulk.

There's probably severe health complications with that level of testosterone though.

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Some people have crazy testosterone levels for medical reasons. StyroPyro did a YouTube video a few months back about his testosterone levels.

Hope he's doing alright. He didn't know why they were elevated at the time.

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lemmy.today

Idk man styropyro just got diagnosed with extremely abnormally high test. He most definitely isn't on gear.

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I would believe StyroPro was the outlier on the graph, absolute peak human male without a doubt.

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lemm.ee

Oh, to have both the realization that everybody is a complete moron, and the urge to punch them because of it...

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Yeah I saw this and all I could think was "Mad! The guy is going to be mad about all of the stupid while also knowing he can't use his fists to make it (actually) better". A constant cycle of never having all of the solutions or a way to feel better.

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techtreply
lemmy.world

How does this lead you there? IQ 100 is already the average by definition, so no matter how moronic people are as a whole this chart will look the same

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mmddmmreply
lemm.ee

Hum... Have you missed the entire OP's joke?

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Oh were you commenting from Gigachad's perspective? I did miss that

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feddit.nu

i started balding at 20 so it could very well be me

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Betoreply
lemmy.studio

You're halfway there, you just need to get smarter now!

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i don't think i could possibly be smarter than i already am.

...the scale goes 0-100, right

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The Ancient Greeks believed that you had to exercise the body and mind so that checks out

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lemmy.world

So I'm not a data scientist but doesn't this basically say that your testosterone and IQ are pretty independent of each other?

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No, the big cloud of data points says they are pretty dependent and the little outlier says outliers can exist.

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mander.xyz

I am a scientist and it pisses me off that the independent variable is on the y axis

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The depiction does not tell you anything since you cannot see structure in the black blob. It shows that outliers do exist which is expected since biology is messy.

There is the slightest anti correlation for measured testosterone levels and IQ, but on the individual level this is meaningless. There are people with testosterone resistance to various levels which would require diligent treatment to destill a more useful graph, but that's infeasible.

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For about a month every day, he drank 500grams of protein powder, mixed with meth and cocaine - power lifted every day .... literally saw the face of God for a moment and could understand space and time ... then suffered a massive heart attack and died.

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lemm.ee

I mean I've seen the guy's videos.

That dot? It's Styro Pyro.

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It's Add Health, so it's not even the R2 that's the problem but the fact it's probably got a ton of covariates not included in the model. Lots of contextual variables not in that set drive me nuts, although I'm not even sure if 5th wave exists or has testosterone data lol (haven't used it in years)

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Well, it's also important to note that the variability is high so the prediction for a single individual won't be of much use

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I wish this plot werent true

That's an easy wish! Last time I saw this plot people were saying that this kind of data doesn't even exist in the mentioned source (that and IQ is kind of bogus, but y'know)

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lemmy.zip

Btw is this real? I thought there was no conclusive data on testosterone and inteligence being related. Most sources say that its the change which matters(meaning that if you start taking it) and not the baseline except in the extremes.

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don
lemm.ee

That’s a bonafide Boltzmann brain.

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Could be someone with mild testosterone insensitivity, people like that often have elevated testosterone levels without the effects of elevated testosterone levels.

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dontpanicreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Nah the transmascs and trans men know better. When your T is that high, your body converts some of the extra into estrogen via aromatization.

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pawb.social

Oh, fair. Didn't know that, just knew for transfem a higher estrogen level than cis can be normal (especially monotherapy).

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lemm.ee

So, because women have a much lower content of Testosterone, we can conclude that there are much more stupid than men or what does this silly correlation wants to tell us???

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lemmy.ca

It’s about men but your takeaway would be that women are smarter because as IQ goes up, Testosterone goes down

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drascusreply
sh.itjust.works

this graph very clearly states it's only related to men and has nothing to do with women at all. the only thing it shows is that the majority of men have average intelligence and average testosterone levels. R2=0.19 value means only 19% of the variation in testosterone levels can be explained by IQ, leaving 81% unexplained. This is a very weak relationship, bordering on statistical noise.

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lemmy.world

I wonder why they chose IQ as the independent variable? Surely it would be the other way around.

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lemmy.world

The thing about very superficial analysis like this is you can just go fishing for correlations and come back with something meaningless but publishable.

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That exploitation of the scientific system is not what's happening here. This is naive maybe, but not malicious, and it seems valid and without unwanted motives.

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GoodEye8reply
lemm.ee

His takeaway is that women are as smart as men (as in the IQ is the same) but because men have higher testosterone holding them back men are actually smarter than women. What I think he's actually trying to say is that he's a high testosterone misogynist.

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drascusreply
sh.itjust.works

If that is someones takeaway they are wrong. This chart essentially shows that these things are not actually correlated.

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Look. I don't make the rules of misogyny. You want things to make sense, you need to look elsewhere.

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Bogus007reply
lemm.ee

Your conclusion is based on deduction which in many occasions - like this one - leads to false conclusions. Try again.

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GoodEye8reply
lemm.ee

Wait? So the other person isn't being misogynistic? I'm lost.

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All in your head, it is. The answer to your question, by you, lies.

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lemmy.world

women have a much lower content of Testosterone, we can conclude that there are much more stupid than men

This poster is High T. Ask me how I can tell.

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Understand the meaning of question marks, you do not? Much to learn, little Padawan, you still have.

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drascusreply
sh.itjust.works

The only thing this graph shows is that average people are average. This graph essentially shows no -> very weak correlation between testosterone levels and IQ. in fact I would say this graph argues that correlating testosterone levels with IQ is essentially flawed. However because of the way the data is represented it makes it look as though there might be a correlation.

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AFAIR the R2 is (almost) equal to rho in the Pearson correlation. I just see two variables, a linear fit from - possibly - an OLS. The small R2 is likely due to the outlier (though a single outlier by this mass of points raises my eyebrows as the MSE (or take the RSME) won’t be affected as such by a single point when there are 15’000 points centered closely around an estimate, but CCV would tell) and R2 says nothing about the p-value, which is determined by the amount of information in a system/about variables, and hence likely way below 0.05.

This relationship aka in this case correlation says pretty much nothing about real world, because IQ is (possibly) not only determined by IQ, but way many other factors. The picture is utterly simplified. It is similar to the relationship between the number of babies and the number of storks.

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