Comparing and Correlating Vexation with Testosterone Levels

Overview

To answer many questions society has about why men are more likely to be the aggressor in violent contexts, a study was conducted to test the correlation between vexation and testosterone levels in men. To measure vexation, a game was programmed using MIT App Inventor. The game was programmed to habituate a state of vexation in the participant and using a scale set by Child Youth Care League, a numerical value was given to the vexation level reached. (1-10) To measure testosterone, at-home saliva tests were used, and the amount of testosterone in pg/mL was tracked. A low correlation would attribute the cause of vexation to more largely be nurture, while a high correlation would attribute nature. The study found a very low correlation (r^2 was 0.08) between the two variables, thus concluding that nurture was largely responsible for vexation.

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