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Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

12 Mar

@JPhilofEd

🚨Please read and RT!🚨 1/New paper on "The Gender Wars, Academic Freedom and Education" with Judith Suissa published in @JPhilofEd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

2/ We often hear it claimed that there is no such thing as a crisis in academic freedom, cancel culture is a myth, etc. This paper demonstrates that there is a serious problem with academic freedom regarding the ability to discuss sex, gender and gender identity.

3/ The problem is fundamental and far-reaching. Inevitably so, given that sex is a vital concept across the human and social sciences and the humanities. Gender identity extremists are succeeding in making it difficult for academics to talk about and collect data on sex.

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Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

11 Feb

Letter in the Times today from quantitative social scientists. "We are on the brink of losing robust, high quality data on sex in the UK. Once gone, we may never get it back".

@mikewadejourno

Story in the Times by @mikewadejourno "Plans to ignore biological sex when collecting census data in favour of self-defined gender threaten to undermine robust statistics in a move that is creating “deep-seated alarm” among leading academics." thetimes.co.uk/article/plan-t…

Longer version of our letter: "It is our strong view that the burden of proof remains with the respective Chief Statisticians to articulate why data on biological sex is no longer salient." ukdataexperts.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/open-l…

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Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

24 Jan

@ons

1/ It is great news that ONS @ons appear to have moved away from a self-id approach for the Census thetimes.co.uk/article/sex-qu…

2/ Quantitative social scientists have discussed with ONS the importance of accurate sex-based data. As far as we are aware, the detail of the guidance is still under review, but I welcome this indication that ONS has moved away from framing sex in terms of gender id.

3/ As I said to the Times: “Sex is an important predictor of outcomes across all areas of life, including education, wages, crime, and physical and mental health. If we do not monitor sex differences, we cannot tackle sex discrimination."

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Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

20 Jan

https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1351632859950411777

1/ People often claim that the numbers of people identifying as the opposite sex are too small to make a difference statistically. This is a clear example showing why that is false. The proportion of child sexual abusers who are women is tiny. Therefore, stats can be...

https://twitter.com/fairplaywomen/status/1351632859950411777

2/ ...seriously distorted by including males who 'self-id' as women in the female category. In this case, it is reported that the number of female child sex abusers has rocketed by 80% in the last few years. As a researcher, I would ask "why has that happened?"

3/ And, if there's no plausible explanation of why such a change may actually have occurred, your thoughts turn to whether there is a problem with the data. Is this artefactual? Is there a disjunction in the time series, e.g. because a key variable is being collected differently?

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Professor Alice Sullivan

@ProfAliceS

14 Jan

@BBCr4today

1/ Thanks to @BBCr4today for having me on to discuss data collection on sex and why it matters. This follows the extraordinary claim by Scotland's Chief Statistician, Roger Halliday, that sex should typically not be asked unless there is a medical reason.

2/ In fact, those of us who use quantitative data overwhelmingly believe that sex is important. It matters across a wide range of domains: education, wages, crime, political attitudes, religion - you name it, sex is almost always a big predictor!

3/ Sex and gender identity are two different things, and gender identity is not a clarly defined concept. Ciaran McFadden Young (who is not a quantitative social scientist as far as I can see) claimed that sex doesn't matter, effectively it is always trumped by gender identity.

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