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		username90 on Oct 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive em... Testosterone increases blood flow, it could be that the participants taking it got more alert meaning better scores but that testosterone also worsens results for similar alertness levels.

Jolter on Oct 3, 2019 [–]

That's just not what the study studied. You can speculate but there is no evidence for that hypothesis in this paper.

username90 on Oct 3, 2019 | [–]

I didn't say that this study proved it, I just meant that effects like that could cause the non-linear results reported and mess with studies.

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