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The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women
Many studies report on the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. However, most of these studies have limited sample sizes and test multiple hypotheses (without preregistration). In this study we mainly replicate the common specific...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31894199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40881-019-00076-y |
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author | Parslow, Elle Ranehill, Eva Zethraeus, Niklas Blomberg, Liselott von Schoultz, Bo Hirschberg, Angelica Lindén Johannesson, Magnus Dreber, Anna |
author_facet | Parslow, Elle Ranehill, Eva Zethraeus, Niklas Blomberg, Liselott von Schoultz, Bo Hirschberg, Angelica Lindén Johannesson, Magnus Dreber, Anna |
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description | Many studies report on the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. However, most of these studies have limited sample sizes and test multiple hypotheses (without preregistration). In this study we mainly replicate the common specifications found in the literature for the association between the 2D:4D ratio and risk taking, the willingness to compete, and dictator game giving separately. In a sample of 330 women we find no robust associations between any of these economic preferences and 2D:4D. We find no evidence of a statistically significant relation for 16 of the 18 total regressions we run. The two regression specifications which are statistically significant have not previously been reported and the associations are not in the expected direction, and therefore they are unlikely to represent a real effect. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s40881-019-00076-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-69176332019-12-30 The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women Parslow, Elle Ranehill, Eva Zethraeus, Niklas Blomberg, Liselott von Schoultz, Bo Hirschberg, Angelica Lindén Johannesson, Magnus Dreber, Anna J Econ Sci Assoc Replication Paper Many studies report on the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. However, most of these studies have limited sample sizes and test multiple hypotheses (without preregistration). In this study we mainly replicate the common specifications found in the literature for the association between the 2D:4D ratio and risk taking, the willingness to compete, and dictator game giving separately. In a sample of 330 women we find no robust associations between any of these economic preferences and 2D:4D. We find no evidence of a statistically significant relation for 16 of the 18 total regressions we run. The two regression specifications which are statistically significant have not previously been reported and the associations are not in the expected direction, and therefore they are unlikely to represent a real effect. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s40881-019-00076-y) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer US 2019-10-11 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6917633/ /pubmed/31894199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40881-019-00076-y Text en © The Author(s) 2019 OpenAccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Replication Paper Parslow, Elle Ranehill, Eva Zethraeus, Niklas Blomberg, Liselott von Schoultz, Bo Hirschberg, Angelica Lindén Johannesson, Magnus Dreber, Anna The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
title | The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
title_full | The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
title_fullStr | The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
title_full_unstemmed | The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
title_short | The digit ratio (2D:4D) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
title_sort | digit ratio (2d:4d) and economic preferences: no robust associations in a sample of 330 women |
topic | Replication Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31894199 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40881-019-00076-y |
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