Do black boys have more testostereone than white boys?

Question

When I was at school the black kids seemed more muscular than the white kids.

Is this the case and is this due to them having higher testostereone levels.

If this is the case could that be one of the reasons for their underperformance at school. The extra testostereone could make them relatively more aggresive and more dominant and therefore harder for teachers to control.

Answer 1

Asiatics like in India are uniformly brown, neither white or black and males come in all categories - skinny and muscular. There are ways of testing the levels of testosterone in the blood but that has nothing to do with body mass or muscle mass. You find various types of combinations.....Racially blacks and whites will have equal or comparable levels of testosterone and muscle mass - like any other individual from any part of the world; be they eskimoes, Red Indians of N. America/Canada, Norwegians, WASP, Persian, Italian, Iranian, Saudi Arabian, Bedouins, Jews, Australian aborigine, Chinese, Japanese, Slavic or...... there can be no genaralizations. A high testosterone level may go with a skinny (or adequate muscular type) while obese people tend to have lower testosterone and consquently lower sex drives). But ofcourse it need not be so always. I suppose this will be true across all races - caucasoid, mongoloid, asian, african or the myriads of others. We are all human. That's it.

Answer 2

Hmmm, controversial question!

Well apparently studies have shown that black men do have more testosterone in their blood than white men.

Testosterone is related to physical and sexual aggressiveness, and also combines with intelligence. Men who are intelligent but who have high testosterone levels are likely to be more successful, socially and professionally, than intelligent men with low testosterone levels. On the other hand those who are less intelligent with high testosterone are more likely to be criminals.

So the answer would seem to be that yes, black boys do have more tesosterone, but that this is likely to be much less a factor in educational underperformance than social and economic factors.

Answer 3

black and white people are not different species unless you talk about Australien Aborigenies (we are geneticly closer to the chimp than to them )
but all other races only differe in pigment of the skin or features
biologically we are the same
food is relevant to devellopment
and so is life style

Answer 4

Funny the smartest guy I knew at school was Black, He was skinny, gentle and one of the nicest people I've EVER met!

Obviously he was a freak of nature or could it be that just like us whites he was an individual!

Answer 5

wow, ignorance, racism and stereotyping all in one post.

first, id say it was diet. an african or jamaican diest tends to contain more fresh veg and fish that the typical western diet.

also, the african or jamaican culture is more active than the "sit in front of the tv playing xbox and eating big macs" white one.

Answer 6

I think your over generalizing a bit, all black and white boys are different did you go to school in harlem?

Answer 7

You should have posted this question in cultures and society where the racist troll around....this the the Biology section, we try to keep it professional......this coming from a "hard to teach out of control black person"

Here again..............please post those questions there.

Answer 8

Both black males and females are generally predisposed to biological muscle mass. I don't think it is a testosterone thing, but I read somewhere that blacks put on muscle weight easier than other races. No matter - people from every race can have those things if they want them.

Answer 9

woundn't know, there must be some way to count the testo
to see which has more if who's is bigger (the testo that is)
-- while your in that area solve that other "whose is bigger"
question if you would

Answer 10

The colour of your skin has no bearing. Its Nature / Nurture