Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal brain development

Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by mhermher on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @02:06PM (#19371160)

Because people who do so often ignore that variance is non-zero. Such as your comment, which makes no mention of it and focuses on mean differences. There's a lot more to the distribution of random variables.

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by amanaplanacanal on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @04:22PM (#19372599)

Yes! People are each individuals. Just because the standard distribution of one group is slightly shifted one way or the other from the standard distribution of another group, doesn't allow you to say anything useful about the differences of individuals. Yes, there is a difference on average, but the overlap is way bigger than the difference.

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by pmarreck on Thursday March 14, 2019 @06:42PM (#19394624)

Actually, I found evidence on my own that the overlap is bigger than the difference.

Want to know the absolutely delicious irony, here? I saw it in James Damore's memo.

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Re:Sex differences in functional connectivity during fetal b... by pmarreck on Tuesday March 12, 2019 @06:22PM (#19373697)

> Yes, there is a difference on average, but the overlap is way bigger than the difference

Unless you have evidence to back this up, it sounds an awful lot like a "mere belief"

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