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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Replying to @chaosprime
Wait, what does Xanax have to do with sex differences?
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Replying to @rainherself @AndreaMedaris
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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Replying to @chaosprime @AndreaMedaris
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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Replying to @chaosprime
Right I guess that was the missing info I was wondering about. Is it prescribed more often for women?
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Replying to @rainherself @AndreaMedaris
yeah, 2x as often per the Random Googling Citation
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Replying to @chaosprime @AndreaMedaris
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?
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that sounds like a rad as hell thing to do if mastery of this procedure were within my skillset
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Replying to @chaosprime @AndreaMedaris
it's basically the same math as in the Damore argument about the area under bell curve tails, except less shitlordy
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