Azhir Mahmood  🚀 🤖 🧬 🧠 🪐

In the meantime, your recommending reading is "How Charts Lie - Getting Smarter about Visual Information” by Alberto Cairo.

It's great book and I'm really glad to see you taking some initiative. Data visualisation can be a tricky topic for some. It's okay to find topics difficult to understand. I realise your struggling to understand. I'm more than happy to provide you guidance when you need it.

Thanks. What does the x-axis represent?

I.e it is diagram to convey ideas. So there's isn't a conventional x-axis. I think there's just a lot of foundational concepts in data visualisation that it might be helpful to first learn. Maybe some wider reading would help.

To me the question suggests you're struggling to interpret the diagram. Which is fine I remember in my youth when I had so many questions and misconceptions. Keep at it, you'll get there!

Oh mate, sex isn't a spectrum is it? If something foundational to your beliefs isn't real maybe have a think about that?

Ah, I recognise your upset. Many people new to science expect simple answers and interpreting data is very difficult for some. Dr Laura Ross at the University of Edinburgh & Dr Heath Blackmon at Texas A&M lead incredible labs that provides great foundational reading!

Your basic problem in the “sex is a spectrum” concept is that absolutely no peer reviewed biology paper *ever* mentions it. This is for the technical reason that it is ideological horseshit designed to fool the incurious.