𝚘𝚐̆𝚞𝚣 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚣

[𝚘𝚐̆𝚞𝚣 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚣 @oguzify]

Does creatine make you smarter?
https://t.co/Ia5dS5Lf0c

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Violent criminals only seem to have ~18% higher testosterone than members of the general population.

Sex offenders don't have higher testosterone at all.

The idea that testosterone-filled rage is driving crime is hard to reconcile with these observations.

[𝚘𝚐̆𝚞𝚣 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚣 @oguzify]

Grades go up, skills go down
Six in ten Harvard grades are now A's, and most US high schoolers report an A average. Meanwhile, adults are getting worse at reading and math.
https://t.co/dnGdOsQsO5

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Women give higher ratings to shows in every category except animation.

Women give shows like The Mindy Project and Empire much higher ratings than men give them.

Men, OTOH, give shows like Seinfeld, The Wire, and the Sopranos higher ratings.

[Andy Kong @oldestasian]

divorce rate vs. years of marriage is really interesting, pretty stable curve except the “empty nest” bump in the middle

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

How Dostoevsky felt when he wrote a book about gambling to pay off his gambling debts and wrote it in only 26 days.

[Big ol Wave 🌊 @BigolWave]

Healthy men don’t experience the prolactin spike from sex/ gooning btw

[𝚘𝚐̆𝚞𝚣 𝚌𝚎𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚣 @oguzify]

🇹🇷😍

[Ted @TedPillows]

🇹🇷 Turkish Lira has now made a new low for 73 consecutive weeks.

Insane.

[Morph @doctormorphh]

retards benefit more from modafinil, scientifically proven.

according to a study in humans, IQ was significantly coorelated with how much modafinil improved cognitive outcomes.

[UBERSOY @UBERSOY1]

Vaping is gay and mentally ill coded

[🌼🙂🍊 Peat Pillman @PeatPill]

The second best life-extendijg compound is an antibiotic that makes men stop simping.

[Hitchslap @Hitchslap1]

This study had two key findings:
• Frequent gaming was associated with improved cognition but did not affect mental health.
• Exercise improved mental well being but had no effect on cognitive abilities.

A rough conversion using z-scores shows an advantage of ~5 IQ points for frequent gamers vs non-gamers, and ~2 points for infrequent gamers.

My takeaway from the study is eat steaks, lift weights, and recover while gaming.

[Morph @doctormorphh]

Creatine monohydrate 20 g/day for 7 days did not improve cognitive performance or mood after sleep restriction compared to placebo.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“The fact that personality predicts divorce has an interesting implication, namely that because personality is partially heritable, divorce is partially heritable.” https://t.co/FtSNSLbF2k

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

An acute dose of testosterone (150 mg) shifted men's behavior to do what gave them high social status.

That produces different results in different cultures.

> in an Austrian study, men were less likely to fake prosocial behavior

> in east asian studies, men with elevated testosterone showed higher rates of prosocial learning and generosity toward others when that behavior conferred social standing

The proposed explanation is that cultures differ in how they confer social status. Independence in the West and visible generosity towards those with lower status in the East.

Testosterone doesn't drive universal rebellion or blind conformity. It motivates the brain to focus on behaviors that grant them social capital and status that the local culture values.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Your personality probably won’t change much in the next year or even in the next few, but it probably will change quite a lot over the next few decades. Odds are you’ll get more conscientious and agreeable, and also less neurotic.

https://t.co/FtSNSLbF2k

[Master Metabolism @lowmegatron]

Reminder that SSRIs can reduce empathy:

“These findings contradict previous cross-sectional reports of empathy deficits in acute major depressive disorder. Rather, they suggest that antidepressant treatment (escitalopram/Cipralex) reduces the aversive responses triggered by exposure to the suffering of others... Importantly, this cannot be explained by a general blunting of negative affect, as treatment did not change self-experienced pain."

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Yes!

The earlier you start getting cholesterol down, the longer you'll live.

One way we know this is by comparing people who have low LDL for genetic reasons to people in trials: people who have low LDL for life basically have consistent treatment for longer, and live longer.

[Emil Kirkegaard @KirkegaardEmil]

Smartphones are addictive and leads people to be asocial. This increased asociality should eventually result in lower fertility rates given that being social is generally required to form relationships. Researchers used the inequal roll-out of the first iPhone in the USA to see if this prediction held up. It did. It appears that areas that got earlier access to iPhones (limited to AT&T network distribution) declined in fertility sooner.