@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 Scientists framing models of sex are all working from the same dataset. Scientists saying ‘sex is a spectrum’ do not have any special understanding unavailable to those who disagree with this framing.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 I disagree with the novel interpretation of sex as a spectrum. The standard binary framing has far more use and predictive power as a model. The exceptions utilised by Spectrummers (not a word) are all understood perfectly well within the standard binary model.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 I do not believe it is good science to reject a model that applies to nearly all complex life on earth, to account for rare exceptions.
Exceptions that are entirely predictable within the standard binary model.
Exceptions that are entirely predictable within the standard binary model.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 No scientist looks at a dataset of 4999 pieces of information and adapts a well-understood model to account for the sole exception. Especially when the scientist would have predicted that exception would arise, given their understanding.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 The utility of the ‘sex is a spectrum’ model is, as far as I can see, limited to inclusion of these rare exceptional people. I understand the social desire, driven by empathy, to do so.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 But it’s a terrible model.
It isn’t useful to describe nearly 100% of the dataset.
It has no predictive power. If sex is a spectrum, one would not be able to predict what the sex of any fertilised zygote would be, or what the anatomy of the individual is likely to be.
It isn’t useful to describe nearly 100% of the dataset.
It has no predictive power. If sex is a spectrum, one would not be able to predict what the sex of any fertilised zygote would be, or what the anatomy of the individual is likely to be.
@SilvieKilgallon @Woodywing @MartianOrthodox @happlebio @metaburbia @ShadowC5 @macohibs @RebeccaRHelm @Lizzy_Lang7 It therefore lacks explanatory power. It is a series of descriptions, not principles.
Conversation here. Some thoughts I’ve been mulling over for a few days. Happy to discuss.
Conversation here. Some thoughts I’ve been mulling over for a few days. Happy to discuss.
