[hn92726819]

> Objectively meaningless

I think that's your issue. In isolation, maybe you think it's objectively meaningless. But if that were true in life and society, you would not see such drastic statistical significance between men and women. For example, wouldn't you expect murders, suicides, pay, life expectancy, etc etc to be a 50/50 split if gender is objectively the same?

I don't know for sure, but I imagine your star sign or whatever is not a significant predictor of anything. But being a man or woman is a significant predictor in many things.

[scotty79]

It's known that men have more long tailed distribution across many traits. It's not super surprising because they have just one X chromosome which means any deviation from the mean on it gets expressed and there's a lot of important stuff there.

Things like murders, suicides, excessive pay and such are mostly result of that. It's not because men are different on average. It's because they are more spread around the average. Which pretty much means that men from the end of the spectrum are less similar to other men from the opposite end than they are to all women.

Of course sex and even gender are better predictors than zodiac signs. Nearly everything is a better predictor because zodiac signs are crap. But affluence might be better predictor than gender for many things. Neuroticism might be a better predictor than gender for many things. IQ can be a good predictor for many things. In the myriad of very good predictors why fixate on the simplest and dumbest one that just divides population exactly in halves?

PS: Zodiac signs are a great predictor of what horoscope the person is going to read or what zodiac pendant or t-shirt or whatever they are going to wear or buy. All other predictiors including gender are absolutely terrible at predicting that. ;-)