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    Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 16 Nov 2018
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    Academic paper seriously suggests that gender nonconformity - being a sissy or tomboy - can be traced back to having lived a previous life as the opposite sex. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19317611.2018.1523266?journalCode=wijs20 …pic.twitter.com/4Al2IbcY4n

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      2. J.A. Brown‏ @jaybeebrtweets 17 Nov 2018
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        Let's suppose that people actually reincarnate. The probability that in all of your past lives, you would've been both male and female is extremely high, so there's no reason why that would cause gender nonconformity. If, on the other hand, it's based only on your most recent…

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      3. J.A. Brown‏ @jaybeebrtweets 17 Nov 2018
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        …past life, there's about a 50% chance of it having been either male or female, so we would expect gender nonconformity as a result of your previous life to be much more common. Unless, of course, only very few people remember their most recent past life…

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      1. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 16 Nov 2018
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        Yes it is exactly what it says, especially if you read the whole paper. If I am wrong, do a better digest of the article!

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      1. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 17 Nov 2018
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        Well, first you told me I should be ashamed of my work, then it turns out you did not even read the paper this is all about. Then you demand me to help you. One lesson about being ashamed.

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      2. Jim OShaughnessy‏Verified account @jposhaughnessy 16 Nov 2018
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        Replying to @DegenRolf

        pic.twitter.com/o4Pl32UX5C

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      3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 16 Nov 2018
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        I once visited a reincarnation therapist for a series of reports on different forms of psychotherapy. He actually greeted me with the sentence: "Oh, we know each other, from Ancient Egypt!"

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      2. Femke‏ @FvRhijn 17 Nov 2018
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        Replying to @DegenRolf @Neuro_Skeptic

        Interesting definition of gender nonconformity...

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      3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 17 Nov 2018
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        Replying to @FvRhijn @Neuro_Skeptic

        I actually took that from Google Scholar.

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      2. J.A. Brown‏ @jaybeebrtweets 17 Nov 2018
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        I think what he is critiquing (correct me if I'm wrong, Rolf) is the fact that the study seriously suggests that a past life as the opposite sex can be a cause of childhood gender nonconformity.

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      3. Rolf Degen‏ @DegenRolf 17 Nov 2018
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        It has also one good thing: Judging from the last sentence in my screenshot, we may know have a good idea where all that "missing heritability" is that has been haunting behavioral genetics.

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