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Well Duhhh..Study Indicates Porsche Drivers Produce More Testosterone Than Camry Drivers

Agent009 submitted on 10/15/2009 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 4:37:14 PM

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Testosterone is what drives men's desire to own fast cars, according to a study published in the journal Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes.

Researchers at Concordia University's John Molson School of Business in Montreal took 39 willing young men and let them take a cruise in a $150,000 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet.

The men were then asked to drive a 16-year-old Toyota Camry.

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Well Duhhh..Study Indicates Porsche Drivers Produce More Testosterone Than Camry Drivers

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Wow, they actually needs a test to prove that.
— theoptimisticpessimist (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:07:44 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7

duh is right
— Agent63 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/17/2009 3:36:16 PM | | Votes: 1

Seriously???....they actually needed scientific evidence of this! Who paid for this study?!?
— Need4Speed (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:08:05 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5

insurance companies?
— Joe_Limon (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:12:57 PM | | Votes: 2

Ummmm, you and I probably did.
— SP2Hybrid (View Profile)

Posted on 10/16/2009 1:33:09 AM | | Votes: 2

"Researchers at Concordia University's John Molson School of Business in Montreal took 39 willing young men and let them take a cruise in a $150,000 Porsche 911 Carrera Cabriolet.

The men were then asked to drive a 16-year-old Toyota Camry."

WOW. I'm shocked! How would have imagined! Someone definitely got their money's worth of research dollars out of that research project!

I'll be able to sleep tonight!
— Invisible (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:37:04 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4

So that's where I get it....
— 204E60 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:38:05 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -1

"Saad said it is unlikely the car would have any long-term impact on a man's libidinal drive."

hrmmm... excessive external stimulation of testosterones production (in this case driving a porsche a couple hours a week) is likely to cause similar symptoms of anabolic steroid induced hypogonadism via over-stimulation of androgen receptions leading to negative feedback of the production of gonadotropins.

in layman terms, your testes would shrink much like an athlete who inject themselves chronically with anabolic steroids.
— validus00 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:38:53 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3

of course in a scientific paper, they would release all the data so that one can determine if the data follows a normal distribution so that a two-sample t-test can be applied to test the null hypothesis whether there is no difference between one driving a porsche and one driving a camry.

i mean, nowadays, they'd do and say anything to prove something provocative.

then, we can then determine the testosterone concentration increase to determine whether there is averse effects on our natural testosterone producing organs. only then can we assume a link between over-production of testosterone with hypogonadism.
— validus00 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 6:03:20 PM | | Votes: 2

What man would ever drive a camry??
— carguy68 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:40:02 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6

Now I'm really peaked and need to know the Estrogen levels in Women with driving a Lexus RX450H then followed by 1980, Hyundai Scoupe.
— Invisible (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:41:31 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5

The Hyundai might actually be more exciting!
— Willis (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 5:49:23 PM | | Votes: 3

I would have never thought!!!
— ThierryHenry14 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 7:38:20 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2

The Camry had heated seats, the Porsche did not.
— topneuro (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 8:40:16 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3

They produce more testosterone cuzz they're still mad that Nissans Zilla still kicked their butt.
— Type707 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 9:55:59 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1

I call a woman's vagina a Porsche.
— HyundaiSmoke (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 10:58:18 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: -3

Is the punch line, cause it's something every man wants?
— Joe_Limon (View Profile)

Posted on 10/15/2009 11:49:49 PM | | Votes: -1

A Camry can make you produce Testosterone?
— 1UAW (View Profile)

Posted on 10/16/2009 3:49:16 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1

Oh it takes it away!
— 1UAW (View Profile)

Posted on 10/16/2009 10:30:18 PM | | Votes: 3

someone tell me this is a joke. they didn't really waste time and money to figure this out, right? i've never driven either and could've told anyone that.
— 1dott8 (View Profile)

Posted on 10/16/2009 10:15:50 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3

btw, they could've used a brand new Camry and got the same results.
— PlanB (View Profile)

Posted on 10/16/2009 11:46:53 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3

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