Re:David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psyc...
by stallmanite on Sunday January 26, 2020 @10:52PM
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But doesn’t there exist a plausible biological pathway for transsexuals to develop a brain structure similar to the opposite sex whereas no similar plausible biological basis can be proposed for having developed the brain of a fictional anthropomorphic animal?
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Re:David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psyc...
by ThrowawayR2 on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @11:42AM
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I'm not sure how that's relevant. Setting aside that being plausible doesn't mean it's true, would you be less supportive of gender dysphoria if there were no plausible biological explanation for it? Alternatively, if there were a plausible biological pathway for people having species dysphoria, would you be more supportive of furries?
Re:David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psyc...
by catalogia on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:32AM
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Isn't "brain structure [characteristic of a] sex" basically pseudoscience? We're rocking different hormone mixtures and maybe slightly different average skull sizes, but I'm under the impression that the later at least doesn't manifest in any measurable innate cognitive differences between males and females. That stuff went out the window with phrenology I think.
Re:David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psyc...
by chroma on Monday January 27, 2020 @12:49AM
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If you look at MRIs of human brains, you can determine the sex with pretty high accuracy. Researchers have even trained machine learning algorithms to differentiate with >90% accuracy.[1]
Researchers have tried this on transgender brains and come up with mostly noise. When they do find differences, it appears that the brains of trans-women are unlike cis-women. Ditto for trans-men.[2]
I am very confident that there is a ton of publication bias in any transgender research. If you publish a politically incorrect result, you risk your career.
1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30430711
2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337026445_Predictiv...