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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.
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+> 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