Copied this from a site found googling, "do liberals have lower testosterone levels". More material googling "testosterone level effect on political views".
Think Alan Alda, Woody Allen, etc,. don't think Charlie Sheen!
"I didn't say liberal men were "low" on testosterone.
I said that in general, conservative males likely have higher levels of testosterone than liberal males.
In the median range, all non-pathological in this range, conservatives in general likely score above the mid-line in the median and liberals below the mid-line in the median, but neither, by virtue of still being in the median, is "high" or "low" in testosterone, pathologically.
Thus, to say conservative males have higher levels of testosterone is not to say that liberal males are "low" on testosterone.
The same is true with regard to the inverse relationship of estrogen levels in conservative and liberal males -- all within the median norm.
No insult here.
Just a probable explanation in behavioral differences.
Nevertheless, I can understand where a man would react as you have. Even if our evolution is destined to androgeny, as some have predicted, so-called "progressive" men today may feel offended by the testosterone comparison, even if it means they may be more evolved.
Women, probably don't feel as threatened by the presentation."
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