Figure 1

The atlas

Four columns, not a hairball. Hover a node to isolate its neighborhood. Open an edge from the index below — the figure is the picture, the list is the citation. Filters are shareable query strings.

20 edges in this cut — click a curve or a row

1. MECHANISMT → StatusBasal T is not a leadership switch. The dual-hormone claim is an interaction, and the interaction is small and contested.
2. MECHANISMCortisol → LeadershipHigh cortisol is the condition under which 'high T = leader' fails. The internet quote drops this term.
3. LOOPWin/loss → TWinning a meaningful contest raises T relative to losing. That T change then colors the next contest. A loop, not an arrow.
4. LOOPT → Win/lossThe other half of the loop: higher T states make another challenge more likely. Evidence is thinner than the win→T half.
5. MECHANISMT → UG rejectExogenous T changes bargaining — but not in the folk direction, and not in every lab.
6. MENDELIAN25(OH)D → EmploymentGenetic instruments for 25(OH)D do not buy you a job. The observational D–success link was a marker.
7. SMOKE25(OH)D → IncomePeople with money and outdoor lives have higher 25(OH)D. That is not D causing the money.
8. MECHANISMOutdoors → 25(OH)DSun makes 25(OH)D. This is the boring, real arrow that makes D a terrible instrument for success.
9. MECHANISMSleep → TCut sleep, cut T. Small trial, right design, right direction.
10. MECHANISMSleep → CortisolSleep debt is an HPA intervention. It is also a HOMA-IR intervention.
11. MECHANISMSleep → HOMA-IRYou can buy a continuous glucose monitor or you can sleep. One of these has a trial behind it.
12. MECHANISMUPF → HOMA-IRUPF raises intake in a ward trial. That is a food-environment effect, not a moral one, and it is not a career steroid.
13. MECHANISMAlcohol → THeavy drinking is an HPG intervention. A glass of wine is not a T protocol in reverse.
14. SMOKET/C → StatusT/C is a derived index. Stamp it smoke unless the paper pre-registered the ratio and showed the interaction.
15. MECHANISMLifting → TLifting is a body-composition and insulin intervention. It is a weak basal-T intervention.
16. SMOKEDHEA-S → StatusDHEA-S on an optimization panel is not a status intervention.
17. SMOKEE2 → DominanceCycle-phase 'preference for dominance' is a contested meta-finding, not a hormone dial.
18. MECHANISMFerritin → CognitionFix a ferritin deficit and attention can move. Raise a normal ferritin and you have a supplement ad.
19. SMOKEPower pose → TTwo minutes in a stance does not identify an androgen change. The larger RCT is a null. The TED talk is not a protocol.
20. SMOKEOT → TrustThe trust-hormone slogan is a 2005 RCT that did not survive its own authors' registered replication.