Fun fact, the big guy carrying Malcolm McDowell is Dave Prowse, better known as Darth Vader.
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Pictured: Outlier (155 IQ, 1650 testosterone ng/dl) carries control (110 IQ, 800 testosterone ng/dl).
Submitted as comment to "What must his life be like?" in Funny@sh.itjust.works, and felt that it justified a whole meme to tie it together.
From A Clockwork Orange for those who don't know.
"Try the wine."
Ohh. I thought it was Austin Powers and maybe both variables were self-reported.
I thought it was the guy from flight of the conchords
Thought so, too.
"That's why they're called business socks."
Oooh!
The face of James Earl Jones! Jk, that is a fun fact I'm stealing for next time I watch a clockwork orange
That blew me away as a kid, realizing that the guy voicing Vader wasn't the one in the costume, and was in fact the same actor who played Thulsa Doom.
I was going to make that comment :-(
I said hello to him once.
TIL there's a negative correlation
In a single group of US school children from 1994, that are now adults
In all other populations I have seen, higher IQ is positively correlated with testosterone
Group makes it seem like less than it actually is, but still fair.
who the fuck is the outlier then
The teacher from 1994
Unknown, but likely he's the human form of Larry the Lobster with a PhD hanging on his wall.
Either my testosterone is high or low but doesn’t the chart above say it covers 16k men and is from 2018?
(I know it also says a longitudinal study, but I wouldn’t consider the inception to be the year the study is from.)
Interesting data. I wonder what IQ test they used and mechanistically how testosterone would affect that (assuming that's a causal relationship in that direction)?
Maybe the lower IQ students were more likely to go into physical labour jobs that boosted testosterone
Or high levels of heavy metal intake (zinc) boosted testosterone and dropped IQ
I assume higher testosterone level means you have less patience for bullshit quiz questions that probably have little to do with assessing intelligence.
high iq is correlated with autism, autism is correlated with being trans, QED
i'm only like 89% joking
I see. That's why my brain's so big.
THAT'S STYROPYRO!!!
All hail Styropyro
The metaphor, as described in the caption, eludes me completely. Is it some sort of pun with the "carrying"? Why is the outlier carrying the control, and who benefits from it, how? Insider joke with just 1 insider?
No, not quite. No one benefits, and it's not an inside joke. The analogy is that the gigantic bodybuilding nerd from Clockwork Orange is the outlier, and that the control is Alex. That's it.
When I saw the original graph, I tried to think of any examples of mega-guidos that were also geniuses and remembered the scene from the movie with Dave Prowse in this role. It seemed to fit well, so I made the meme.
Ah, got it. You had to watch Clockwork Orange to get it. Thanks for explanation!
The brains will help, but you still have my support all the same, for what it's worth.
Certified gigachad
I see that they included Sergeant Alvin York in this data set.
Good Lord, you know that you're a powerhouse of human vigour when even Montenegro takes notice and goes to the effort of granting you a war medal despite your enlistment in a foreign nation's army.