Carole Hooven ✓

@hoovlet · Cambridge, MA · joined 10 Jun 2011

Wrote T: The Story of Testosterone. Harvard PhD, taught there for 20 years about behavioral endocrinology, evolution, sex differences. Now Senior Fellow @AEI.

46 456Followers

1 383Following

8 356Posts total

182.3KViews on collected posts

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Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet24 Aug

"U.S. universities urgently need to reconcile themselves with the public they serve. Again, we hope they will do this by taking up the hard work of reforming their practices to better align with the ideal of nonpartisan truth-seeking." https://t.co/rNbkrKxMeW 10.6K views · 338 likes · 55 reposts · 13 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet23 Aug

@hoovlet @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay I remember as a kid long ago reading about Galileo and his battle for the truth against the ignorance of the age, and thinking that can never happen again. I felt wistful that none of us today could ever again be heroes like that. But I was wrong. 336 views · 6 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet22 Aug

@hoovlet @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay Fantastic talk, Carole! Keep fighting the good fight, for truth, rationality, and ideals of the Enlightenment/science. Our job is to describe reality as it is, not to sugar coat inconvenient truths that may be upsetting to hear. Darwin knew this all 1.2K views · 19 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet21 Aug

@hoovlet @NIH @NIHDirector_Jay I’ve never understood rejection of gametic definition. 897 views · 9 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet21 Aug

My recent @NIH talk 👇🏽 was on why we need to get real about sex. I recommend the lively Q&A (at 50 mins), with NIH scientists in the room and online. (Not all were happy with the gametic definition.) @NIHDirector_Jay was called away, so the conversation was moderated by Rick 79.5K views · 317 likes · 69 reposts · 15 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet21 Aug

NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series: The Reality of Human Sex Differences: Why It Matters for Science, Medicine, and Policy, and Why We Need to Talk About It, with @hoovlet. Q&A 50:00, follow-up video addressing more Qs 1:29:30.👇 https://t.co/p7b3wsWAyq 37.8K views · 74 likes · 14 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet20 Aug

"To be honest, I’m scared shitless right now. I have no idea how the next few months or years are going to play out. But that fear beats the indignity of being muzzled." 45.2K views · 821 likes · 83 reposts · 11 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet20 Aug

🔥"No single finding proves our evolutionary hypothesis. What matters is the convergence of developmental, cross-cultural, performance, and anatomical evidence. Fausto-Sterling does not seriously grapple with that convergence." https://t.co/S0RBbmWplG 4.1K views · 76 likes · 14 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

Carole Hooven ✓@hoovlet20 Aug

"The dismantling of Harvard University’s writing center, and the laying off of Rosenzweig [@RosenzweigJane] its director—both announced last month—has been met with outcry shading into outrage." https://t.co/v85XQ8UreH 2.7K views · 25 likes · 4 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →

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9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.

Median views4 126this account924median for 10K–100K

Reach, %8.88%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.73%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	4 126	924	4.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	8.88%	3.62%	2.45×
Engagement rate	1.73%	1.52%	1.14×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.7K20 Aug

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37.8K21 Aug

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1.2K22 Aug

33623 Aug

10.6K24 Aug

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Engagement rate per post

1.29%20 Aug

2.21%

2.03%

0.25%21 Aug

0.51%

1.11%

1.73%22 Aug

2.38%23 Aug

3.85%24 Aug

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes76.6%1 685 in total

Reposts10.9%239 in total

Replies2.5%54 in total

Quotes0.5%12 in total

Bookmarks9.5%209 in total

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