Emil O W Kirkegaard

When hormones are used to track women's cycles, no cycle shifts in mate preferences are found: "La donna è mobile? Lack of cyclical shifts in facial symmetry, and facial and body masculinity preferences—A hormone based study" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453017308703 …

Makes you wonder if maybe their measures of hormones are just poor?

The preprint studies by our lab include positive controls (e.g. effects of hormones on general sexual desire, weak within-woman effects of hormones on appearance) and the assays were done by commercial labs. So, unlikely to be that.

Also worth bearing in mind that the sample sizes in our replications are at least double that of the original studies and in some cases an order of magnitude larger. Also, surprisingly few of the original studies actually measured hormones....

Unsurprisingly, the results we replicate are the ones with measured hormones and decent Ns (e.g. results reported by Puts and colleagues and Roney and colleagues).

I have no issues with the claims being wrong. I was just wondering if you have done a simple test-retest (within a few hours) study on some subsample to establish reliability? Some time ago, I looked for a such study in these hormone studies, never found it.