no opinion about the original post, however i think its true that theres way too much "splitting" and not enough "lumping" In gender and sex these days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumpers_and_splitters … what's the problem with this? a few things, both practical and theoretical https://twitter.com/GodDoesnt/status/1003993476890054656 …
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first, an empirical/theoretical/science? problem lots of these divisions are probably not real instead theyre imposed over a continuous distribution with a single fat mode near the median dont :clap: classify :clap: unless :clap: the :distribution :clap: is :clap: multimodal
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I think gender identity is a bimodal distribution.
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Replying to @sgodofsk @orthonormalist
I think I'm okay with continuous here, seems like it probably captures a lot of observed intragender variation
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