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+Title: Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Measurement
+Date: 2021-01-31
+Category: commentary
+Tags: categorization, epistemology, sex differences, Scott Alexander
+Status: draft
+
+"Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics"
+https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions
+
+> They also have a category called "gender". They say they included measures like "femininity" and "sex-stereotyped activities" in there–I can't find more specifics. It has a CCFI of 0.42 with confidence interval including 0.5, so looks slightly more dimensional, but can't quite rule out it being slightly more categorical.
+
+> If anyone ever demands you have an opinion on the question "is binary gender real?", I think the most scientifically-supported answer would be "it has a Comparative Curve Fit Index of 0.42 plus or minus 0.1, which means it trends towards dimensionality but taxonicity cannot be ruled out".
+
+https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/630034077642358784/i-think-ive-been-looking-for-something-like
+https://archive.is/GOSJW
+https://web.archive.org/web/20201005072121/https://slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com/post/630034077642358784/i-think-ive-been-looking-for-something-like

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+It seems to me that it's important sense in which this isn't true. The impression that I get—I would be delighted to be wrong about this—is that I'm welcome _conditional_ on observing the local speech rules.
+
+(There isn't an _official_ speech code, but there is a set of utterances that would provoke hostility and ostracism from everyone. As it should be: in an extreme case, someone who habitually shouted racial slurs and graphic descriptions of violence would not be welcome. An extreme case suffices to show that there _are_ rules, that there _is_ a line.)
+
+One could argue that this observation is trivial: when we say that someone is welcome to a place, there's always _some_ implicit condition. [TODO]'s status as a valued member of [TODO] is _conditional_ on [TODO] not being a murderer.

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@@ -2351,3 +2351,10 @@ trans outcome bibliogrpahy comment https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/kq
 https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/
 
 https://www.praile.net/post/kathleen-stock-obe
+
+"Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Prepulse Inhibition and Induces Psychosis-Like Symptoms in Healthy Humans"
+https://www.jneurosci.org/content/34/27/9134.short
+"Severe Sleep Deprivation Causes Hallucinations and a Gradual Progression Toward Psychosis With Increasing Time Awake"
+https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048360/
+
+"Cultural Components of Sex Differences in Color Preference" Davis et al. 2021 (shared on SEXNET) says that girl preference for pink was d=1.3 in a city, but not in trad cultures

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+_ Taxometrics and the Fallacy of the Insufficiently Relevant, Insufficiently Multivariate Experiment
+_ The Sense in Which Scott Alexander's Claim About Binary Gender Is Intellectually Dishonest
+
 - Sexual Dimorphism in Yudkowsky's Sequences, in Relation to
 _ You Are Right and I Was Wrong: Reply to Tailcalled on Causality
  - The Causality of Ethnic Differences in COVID-19 Outcomes Is an Open
+_ The Sense in Which Sex Can't Be Changed
+_ Beyond the Binary
 
- 
 LW—
 - And the Wisdom to Know the Difference
 _ importance of getting the direction of causality right
-
+philosophy-of-language replies, 
 
 Marketing channels—
-_ Twitter/Facebook
 _ Reddit: /r/philosophy, /r/TheMotte, /r/theschism, /r/SneerClub
 _ tags: "The SF Bay Area", "Criticisms of the Rationalist Movement", "Postmortems & Retrospectives"
 
- 
+
+
 _ https://www.facebook.com/duncan.sabien/posts/3936528276381860 "Natural does not always mean good." — natural does not always mean good, but at our current tech level, that's actually a really good prior
 _ Novemember 2020 Political Notes; Or, Sen. Kelly Loeffler Is Mostly Living in a Simulation Now
 _ Phenotypic Identity and Memetic Capture
@@ -21,7 +25,7 @@ _ crimestopped about L.B.
 _ I, Too, Dislike It
 _ Friendship Practices of the Secret-Sharing Plain Speech Valley Squirrels
 _ Yardstick abolition pessimism https://culturallyboundgender.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/gender-identity-isnt-a-box-its-a-yardstick/
-_ Beyond the Binary
+
 _ reductionist rebuttal to "so you think lesbians aren't women"
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Principles  (transhumanism, and sanity)

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 https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/trans-kid-test-psychology.html
 
 https://kathleenstock.com/highlights-of-trans-policies-in-uk-universities/
+
+Symmetry: trans-booster parent thinks child is too young to know about TERFism (but isn't opposed to the idea of the child thinking for themselves when they're old enough to think critically); skeptic thinks child is too young to consent to transition (but wouldn't refuse to recognize an AGP teenager going in with open eyes)