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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

      Men* with deep voices more likely** to be unfaithful***, research**** claims *Chinese university students **p=0.018 ***to score higher on a self-report tool rating attitudes towards infidelity (r² = 0.22) ****single correlational study, n=234 FIXED ITpic.twitter.com/wgg3HwHreY

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

      Study is here:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886920305808#bb0160 …

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

      Honestly, this is a hilarious example of somewhat meaningless research being touted far and wide in the media

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

      The scientists very simply measured vocal tone and pitch in a group of university students recruited through an app, and then asked the students to fill out a few questionnaires on their attitudes towards cheatingpic.twitter.com/HyNAr3VDyR

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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          They found that, in men, some of the measurements of the pitch of people's voices correlated with their attitudes towards infidelity So lower voices felt more comfortable with infidelity than higher voices in men (but not women)

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          Now, you could argue that this is a totally meaningless result on its face, especially because the rating scales used in the study towards infidelity attitudes don't actually correlate well with cheatingpic.twitter.com/DAwxgwjgfA

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          The correlation was also very weak, and if you look at the graphs it appears to be another case of drawing lines on a graph that may or may not mean very muchpic.twitter.com/tC7tjHgUM8

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          On top of this, the researchers ran dozens of statistical comparisons in this study without correcting for multiple comparisons, so it's hard to say whether the few positive results that were observed actually mean anything

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          Moreover, I can't find a pre-registration up anywhere, which is also a bad sign for a psychology paper

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        7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          There's also this wonderful paragraph in the text - pro tip is to never use the term "marginally significant" (also they appear to be using a p-value cutoff of 0.1 for 'significance' which is, uh, not commonplace)pic.twitter.com/49WzcycEAv

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        8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 6 Oct 2020

          Anyway, I don't think you can take much away from this study except that deep-voiced Chinese male students find infidelity slightly more attractive than higher-voiced ones What to make of that? Hard to say

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