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hahaha holy shit i formed the idea that there are enormous sex differences in perception of threat and safety that nobody is allowed to talk about, least of all me, *without even knowing* that Xanax is the most prescribed psych drug by a huge margin

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if women have amped up anxiety compared to men and society has changed so that structural ways of coping with that are low status and economically punished, one would expect women to routinely experience crippling levels of anxiety that have to be medicated so they can perform

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therefore one would expect Xanax to be prescribed at an enormous rate and to be prescribed much more often for women than for men

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yeah, 2x as often per the Random Googling Citation

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assuming a bell curve distribution of anxiety, you could probably estimate the effect size from that and knowing how much of the population is prescribed xanax and other anxiolytics?