Abbott was hesitant to accept his death . not slow cause he was sick <| sep |> To hear the audio <| sep |> Looks like a Gorgonite from Small Soldiers <| sep |> You ' ll just smell like a pound . <| sep |> Correlation does not imply causation . This is a study and it means that they took information from other sources and analysed it to get to this conclusion . That part you quoted is actually the researchers explicitly saying they ' re talking about correlation and not clear causation . That ' s them saying it right there . It ' s specifically not them saying adherence to masculine norms x , y and z is causal re poor mental health in men . Furthermore , when the approach implies men being masculine is toxic , it is questionable . The metastudy singled out a few specific things re correlation with poor mental healththe researchers found the association to be most consistent for these three norms selfreliance , pursuit of playboy behavior and power over womenNow , is that ' masculinity ' to you ? We need to be very sure we ' re working with the same definition of ' masculinity ' here no one , including the researchers , is making a statement as broad as ' masculinity causes poor mental health in males . ' What they are saying is ' these specific facets of what society seems to think of as ' masculinity ' appear to be correlated with poor mental health in males ' which is a much , much smaller statement than the former .