X-Git-Url: http://unremediatedgender.space/source?p=Ultimately_Untrue_Thought.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=content%2Fdrafts%2Ftaxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md;fp=content%2Fdrafts%2Ftaxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md;h=26480189b1729d66cc9b58902b5c12f2485a9b78;hp=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hb=d7f40ed660d0ccd1b59f7932f4d7c936e82d7e42;hpb=a813b5b4e21c1c1de39d265e1862a01b6244b8d4 diff --git a/content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md b/content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2648018 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/drafts/taxometrics-and-the-fallacy-of-the-insufficiently-relevant-insufficiently-multivariate-experiment.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +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