Everest regression ftw https://twitter.com/BrainOnPorn/status/1140663310221631489 …
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In case you're not familiar with the concept of "everest regression", coined by
@GarettJones, here's a short description I found.pic.twitter.com/gnwbwOX2wz
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Another example of an Everest regression would be; "if you control for bone length, men aren't taller than women". It's a pretty common trick.
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Replying to @RealYeyoZa
*Controlling for sex, testosterone doesn't influence athletic performance.
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Replying to @SwipeWright @RealYeyoZa
I doubt that one's true—I would guess that within-sex variation in testosterone influences performance, too. Visuospatial ability might be an interesting example (the "optimal" T level is above the female mean but below the male mean)
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>Visuospatial ability might be an interesting example (the "optimal" T level is above the female mean but below the male mean) Definitely not - hitting a baseball is the purest visuospatial test in sports and it's massively enhanced by exogenous testosterone*
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* Strength is a key factor in hitting as well and in theory, strength could increase by enough to offset spatial decline but in practice this isn't what we see - hitters don't make less contact when using test supplementation.
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