Again, way too many to list, but until recently in even the UK, sex was often about "gender identity" in legal and identification contexts, which is how "sex reassignment" made any sense at all.

Extending this, for each procedure on a given sample or set of subsamples, there'll be relationship between the DISTRIBUTION of results for your measured variables M and the DISTRIBUTION of true values for the outcome variable O. (If M isn't O, M's a set of proxy variables.)

Not sure if you even need NCT. Genes are not the fundamental parts of biological organisms, because they merely secure the upkeep and reproduction of patterns in cell metabolisms. Culture can't just affect genes and/or relative and absolute reproduction rates. I've written briefly about it before.

If you're working in a politically salient science (like sociology and biology), then you gotta examine the most dissident-coded positions as well as the currently most popular ones. If you haven't studied "cranks" comprehensively, you're probably underestimating their reliance on the mainstream.

I'll try to attract a scholar's attention again about something I wanna talk about. @pelagictom.bsky.social How supportable are the claims that: -to sense and react to environments, humans (sometimes unconsciously) predict, prepare for and actively search for relevant parts of environments...

Certain seemingly metaphysical or logical statements may just be methods or very confident bets. For example, physicalist metaphysics is unfounded like all metaphysics is, but if you're not spiritual, have you ever seen any entity that isn't at least physical or a hallucination?

Why is it that whenever I try to defend someone, they don't like me much? Do I go too far? Am I THAT scary?! bsky.app/profile/test...

Maybe asking people about issues I have no idea how to solve this way will help. Let's try it. @evoroseman.bsky.social "Reductionisms" and "determinisms" in evolutionary biology and sociology. I have no idea where to start on this conceptual mess. At most, I know what certain people WANT out of it.

Awfully weird that I've had no notifications for a while. Wonder if that's someone deciding at some distance that I'm one of THOSE folks who needs the silent treatment!

Science needs crazies, with each one included to the extent that they get things correct. Scientists should have no problem with shutting out outsiders who do little but lie, but because they shun weirdos like me en masse, they risk both missing genuine insight and misunderstanding the liars.

The hypocrisy always pisses me off. There's nothing inherently right or wrong by most people's standards with most things, weighted by a combination of salience and likelihood of people encountering. Goes for not being strictly hetero, or even just dudes having a curious or "not gay" fun.

Anyone who says something like this is almost certainly a shill for elite aggression. "It's just, like, society and culture, maaaaaaan!" WHO made society like this? WHO was the greatest influence by far? WHO has been proven to want to engineer the world so much, all to snoop on and control people?

"Come on, you know what I mean!" If you only defend your core points using metaphors and/or obscure terminology that LOOKS ordinary, it's far more likely that readers who attach meanings to what you said are being charitable - STEELMANNING your points in various sometimes diverging ways.

Post-Epstein, we're all "conspiracy theorists" now!

"But human nature!" What proportion of appeals to "human nature" are earnest tries at describing our most stubborn behaviours and traditions + demonstrate their stubbornness? Ignore enough actual and potential variationm and you can always find a scarcely changeable core, but WHAT is it?

Chat re-enabled. As I've previously posted, I was honestly expecting worse.

Less than 3 hours in. It only took just two somewhat long private messages. Someone really doesn't care for the integrity of large "social media" platforms.

Good evening. As soon as I joined, three likely bots followed me. I expect the number to increase & I do not extend a warm welcome to them.