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by ralferoo 725 days ago
> The researchers found no overlap between male and female

That's kind of a bold claim...

EDIT: Interesting that I'm getting massively modded down by people who have clearly not even read the article. There's a bunch of graphs that show "no overlap" without any explanation of what they are actually even showing on the graphs. And then they make claims like "found no overlap between male and female" when what they actually means is "in some poorly specified tests, where they don't actually tell you what they were doing and how they determined this, they found data that was different between male and female". It also seems like the author of the article isn't grounded in statistics or he'd be calling it "no correlation" not "no overlap".

But sure, just carry on down-voting me if you can't be bothered to actually read the article.

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Reading through the article - the source data is 1,500 people. Not insignificant, but reading between the lines at some the criticism outlined - it may be the case that those 1,500 people were chosen selectively in a way that could bias the conclusions (maybe unintentionally).

I would love to get data on where my brain is at! I myself have no gender (like how some people just don't have a religion). I have a sex, and an orientation... just no gender.

But yeah, more data is needed to take this study seriously (reproducibility for one).

It's a psych paper from a major US university. The odds of replication are low.