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@ dandelion @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Message me and let me know what you were wanting to learn about me here and I'll consider putting it in my bio.

  • no, I'm not named after the character in The Witcher, I've never played
  • pronouns: she/her

I definitely feel like I'm more of like a dumpling than a woman at this point in my life.

Hannah Horvath

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  • I'm not sure recommending Popper to someone who has never studied philosophy, and who is reading on their own, is a good idea ... I would probably start with a small intro to philosophy book like Blackburn's Think and then try to find lectures or resources that help teach Popper, rather than just diving into source material with no guidance.

    Popper is important, but I don't think he is commonly seen to have solved the problem of induction ... he made an attempt, but that's a different story.

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  • I didn't want to say it, but I do think this is a possibility - people like Pete Buttigieg were philosophy majors. However, it's probably a bit of both - being wealthy and connected probably still makes up a minority of philosophy majors, and yet they still outperform on graduate entrance exams generally.

    You might be interested in reading The Management Myth by Matthew Stewart for a non-wealthy philosophy major's perspective on business. :-)

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  • There are like 1 in 100 people born trans, a similar number born intersex. It's as common as having green eyes or having red hair.

    Regardless, I figure the scientists are probably looking at this with more detail and seriousness than either of us.

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  • wasn't aware the sexism was intended as a light-hearted joke, my bad apparently

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  • gender dysphoria is not what I'm talking about, since not all transgender people have dysphoria

    right, I get that, but most research has not treated being trans outside the context of gender dysphoria, so when talking about studies or the clinical and scientific context usually non-binary and non-dysphoric trans folks are left out of the picture.

    It is good to be expansive in our concept of being trans for social justice reasons, and to not gatekeep for harm reduction reasons, but since scientists and clinicians are gatekeepers, what we can say about their findings are limited to the criteria they use. It is usually more accurate to say "a study found X or Y about people with gender dysphoria", even though it's not uncommon for that to be presented as "a study found X or Y about trans people" in more mainstream contexts.

    To be clear -- "transgender" the noun is not referring to a person ("that person is a transgender" -- proscribed) but rather as a substitute for "transgenderism" (proscribed).

    I have never seen this usage, and like you I'm skeptical that is right. I could see "being transgender" as a substitute for "transgenderism", but not just "transgender".

    but it's also clearly not purely genetic, given there are identical twins where one is cis and the other not.

    The presence of identical twins where one is cis and one is trans is not proof that gender identity is not genetic - there are many reasons people do not transition or acknowledge their gender identity, such as the strong social pressure to not be trans. There can also be epigenetic differences so while identical twins may share a genome, how it is expressed differs based on a variety of conditions that alter epigenetics, such as stress or illness.

    We see the same with sexual orientation by the way.

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  • I think in clinical and scientific contexts the term "gender dysphoria" is used, but the trans community would probably prefer trans be used as an adjective and not a noun, someone is transgender, but not "a transgender", if that makes sense.

    also, the twin studies show gender identity is genetic and heritable:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_gender_incongruence

    The significant percentage of identical twin pairs in which both twins are trans and the virtual absence of dizygotic twins (raised in the same family at the same time) in which both were trans would provide evidence that transgender identity is significantly influenced by genetics if both sets were raised in different families.

    In 2018 a review of family and twin studies found that there was "significant and consistent evidence" for gender identity being genetically heritable.

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  • yes, though the facts and studies they link to remain true regardless - this is the strongest argument for getting a philosophy degree, it makes sense they present it

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  • ironically philosophy majors perform better on graduate school entrance exams like the LSAT and GREs than most other majors, and philosophy graduates tend to be more successful and be better earners than other majors, notably than business major graduates

    arugably, philosophy is one of the better majors in terms of outcomes

    https://philosophy.unc.edu/undergraduate/the-major/why-major-in-philosophy/

  • White House says slavery is being taught wrong, should not be so negative

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  • just a reminder that Newsweek is a conspiracy-peddling, right-wing rag that we should not be driving traffic to

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  • look, we work very hard on being reactionary here in the U.S., we're a world leader in reactionary politics, and not teaching math well is crucial to keeping a vibrant slave worker population, otherwise they might start, you know, thinking for themselves

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  • The peaks do not designate "cis", you can be cis and fall anywhere on the chart - being cis is about the sex you were arbitrarily assigned at birth (and whether that assignment aligns or conflicts with your actual gender identity).

    And when doctors change assignments, it's really unclear whether you're cis or not if you transition - e.g. a baby assigned female at birth who is then weeks later assigned male at birth later transitions to be a girl, she was originally assigned female at birth - is she trans or cis?

    Instead the peaks represent the most common combination of male and female sex traits in humans, with the slopes representing less common combinations of traits, e.g. to the left of the male peak might be men who experience excessive androgenization like lots of body hair, maybe precocious puberty, early balding, and so on (more male traits than average).

    This chart as a model of sex actually doesn't make much sense, since sex has been redefined in light of how complex sex is and the differences in sexual development that occur.

    Where on the chart would we put someone with complete androgen insensitivity syndrome (CAIS)? With CAIS a person is born with XY chromosomes and thus has a typical male karyotype, but their androgen receptors do not respond to androgens, so none of the masculinization is able to occur - leading the person to look, develop, and usually live as a woman.

    The chart implies a spectrum, when the reality of biological sex is much more complex than a simple spectrum would allow - more like a constellation. Each sex differentiated trait is an axis / spectrum of its own, and there are thousands of ways differentiation can happen.

    EDIT: oh, and to answer your question, it sounds like your question is really whether the peaks on a bimodal distribution represent a smaller number than the tails in aggregate, and the answer is that it depends on how you select your aggregates and how much of the peak you lump together. I think the entire point of the bimodal distribution, though, is to show that the majority fall on the peaks while the tails represent a minority.

    That said, a MRI study found that when examining brain sex, >90% of people (mostly cis) were not able to be classed as having fully male or female brains, so realistically I think it's fair to say most people are sexually divergent in some way.

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  • Why do Americans pretend they're not broke when most Americans are in debt?

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  • are you talking about the comment mentioning it makes financial sense to not pay off their mortgage?

  • Thank you for your service

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  • voiced th is like this, that, mother

    unvoiced th like thick, thimble, thirty

    notice how the voiced th has a buzzing vocalization during the th sound, you can feel your teeth buzzing as you say the th in this

    but when you pronounce thirty that buzzing is absent and the first buzzing starts with the i (the vowel is the first voiced part).

  • Have you ever cried because of a video game?

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  • A Short Hike was such a cute and wholesome game, was taken by surprise and reduced to tears at the ending 😭😭😭

  • xkcd #3124: Grounded

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  • ah, that explains my confusion - thank you for clearing that up!

  • xkcd #3124: Grounded

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  • ah, I wasn't sure because I was reading this:

    The oxygen saturation of hemoglobin determines the content of oxygen in blood. After the human body reaches around 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) above sea level, the saturation of oxyhemoglobin begins to decrease rapidly.[2] However, the human body has both short-term and long-term adaptations to altitude that allow it to partially compensate for the lack of oxygen. There is a limit to the level of adaptation; mountaineers refer to the altitudes above 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) as the death zone, where it is generally believed that no human body can acclimatize.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_high_altitude_on_humans

    it seemed like between 7,000 and 8,000 26,000 the air is not suitable, but I figured the pilot wasn't likely to be taking risks like that, so there must be some explanation

    edit: mixed up feet and meters