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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://xkcd.com/435/

I would say gender is probably centered about around psychology, ranges mostly from sociology to biology, with a just little bit going into chemistry

maybe like

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)
[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

it's a normalized distribution. The y-axis is unitless.

Reason for another XKCD comic about bad graphs (or ten).

[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

practical importance to gender

As perceived by me

(only the most scientific of measurements)

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

purity.

as in whether it applies to the real world is entirely a symbolic construct that has no use/reflection of the real world.