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Life success does not depend on testosterone

08.08.2021

Testosterone is one of the hormones that control the functioning of the reproductive system, but in addition, it is believed that it affects behavior - it increases aggressiveness, self-confidence, willingness to take risks, makes you strive to win at any cost, and so on. Accordingly, it is sometimes called the "hormone of victory." An athlete with high testosterone should be more likely to win a gold medal, and the same goes for life achievement in general - women and men with elevated testosterone should have a higher socioeconomic status.

The problem is that aggressiveness and willingness to take risks do not always lead to victory. As for sports, we already wrote once that sports victories do not depend much on testosterone levels. Employees at the University of Bristol found that the impact of testosterone on success in life is also greatly exaggerated. The researchers used the genetic data of more than 300 thousand people: testosterone levels depend on certain genes, and different variants of these genes had to be compared with the level of education, income level, employment in a particular job, as well as behavioral characteristics (like the notorious willingness to take risks ) and health status. For comparison, special statistical methods were used that make it possible to establish whether differences in some external characteristics (behavior, health, success) in a group of people really correspond to the distribution of genetic variants - or, in other words, whether genetic differences really cause differences in these selected features.

And as a result, the authors of the work came to the conclusion that in both men and women, the level of testosterone only to a very small extent affects the willingness to take risks, and the state of health, and overall success in life. The question arises what to do with all those studies in which the injection of testosterone made the subjects more aggressive and risky; and with studies in which financial traders with elevated testosterone levels made more money from their transactions; and with studies in which managers with increased testosterone turned out to be more subordinates, etc.

The point is that all of this can be a misinterpretation of the data (even very large data). Aggressiveness and willingness to take risks may win in this situation, but it does not follow that they will always bring gains - especially when considered as a whole life. High testosterone and success in life can be the result of good health, that is, it is not testosterone that improves health and leads to success, but an initially healthy person can achieve a lot regardless of testosterone levels.

Finally, it is not the status that can depend on testosterone, but on the contrary, testosterone on the status, and at the same time on how a person perceives himself as successful or unsuccessful. As you know, genes determine the framework in which, in response to the changing world around, one and the same individual can change a sign - for example, the level of a hormone. Imagine that, due to some life circumstances, the level of testosterone has increased - and here it is easy to imagine that the causal relationship between circumstances and testosterone turns out to be somewhat different than the one that is usually talked about.

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