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by xodjmk 1285 days ago
They are probably just using 'men' and 'women' as an approximation that sort of matches the distribution of human beings. Without diving into the exact individual's relationships with sex/gender, you could get a somewhat accurate approximation of how a society operates. Then, from this 1st order approximation, if one was inclined, they could refine and add to the results by further breaking down the input parameters. I don't see any issues with approximating a binary distribution of male and female, even though everyone knows this is not a perfect description of reality. The fact that there is deviations from a binary is good, and can always be tapped into to add alternative views and refinements to the results.