• Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online
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    6 days ago

    This reporting feels careless.

    https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-902165

    The study was conducted as part of Alon Levy’s master’s thesis in public health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    I’m not saying masters thesis are not good work, but it’s not peer reviewed the same way other research is (yet).

    Researchers performed a meta-analysis, a statistical method that combines data from multiple previous studies, incorporating six longitudinal studies conducted in Israel, the United States, Brazil, Finland, and Denmark. Each study included testosterone measurements taken at at least three different time points. In total, data from 118,593 men examined between 1972 and 2019 were analyzed.

    This is hardly representative of “worldwide”.

    Feels very