I don't think Evan is a bad guy or anything, but it's 2021 and just as a basic matter of social science we should all be able to agree that a study examining gender-clinic patient files that makes no attempt to find folks who *left* the clinic is useless for generating a detrans%https://twitter.com/e_urq/status/1370380701653213184 …
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I don't understand this response. Does he have to have some alternate claim in order to make you abandon yours? Bad methodology just isn't a topic to discuss?
I respect Jesse as a fellow science journalist (though if pushed I miiight hesitate to say he's not a bad guy). If he's got better studies I'm interested- he's someone who knows the territory on the level I do.
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I don't think we really have any good studies. They're all from other contexts or don't address the issue of people disappearing from clinics. I bet detransition rate is correlated with profesionallism of assessment but have no studies I can point to to prove that.
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Did you see my tweet about having disappeared from 4 clinics so far (I move around, and don't call my doc when I do). Does it seem likely that an unstable population would move around a lot, like me, or am I letting my anecdotal experience color my understanding unreasonably?
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Now, mind you, we may have a philosophical disagreement. I think all science is imperfect, but you make better conclusions by taking the evidence you have seriously than by ignoring it and assuming something else is true instead. I'd be interested in his arguments there, too.
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But that's a different topic entirely, right? One can say, "I don't know" and still say this one doesn't answer the question you're saying. They're separate but connected discussions. If you're saying, "fair enough on the critique, show me better," that makes sense
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