1. We are machines made out of meat.
2. It’s irrelevant if the choice was made at random or if it was based on some deep spiritual insight. We’re measuring outcomes, not the rationale.

For a binary choice where you expect distribution to be relatively similar you can do it with less than 400 while having 95% confidence and 5% margin of error. That’s just statistics and probability.

That’s more than enough for a statistically significant sample.

Without a causal link shown it’s just peer reviewed correlation. Yes, there are things to suggest it helps with mental health outcomes but as the paper says directly, this is not a proof and there are other factors at play.

I’m not a fan of scientific studies where correlation is all they can come up with. If correlation alone was what we went by then scientists could propose public policies to reintroduce maritime piracy to decrease global warming - they’re inversely correlated after all.

Your link is broken, here’s working one:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2851743

Importantly, puberty blocker prescription was associated with lower odds of mood disorder and suicidality diagnoses, but only among transgender youths. While this result should be studied further and interpreted with caution, it aligns with prior literature10,32,33 and clinical insights.34-36 More research is necessary to determine the mechanisms behind this association; although puberty blocker prescription appeared to attenuate both outcomes, it was not alone associated with diagnostic odds for transgender youths reduced to levels observed among their cisgender peers. Due to limitations of the administrative claims database being analyzed, we could not adjust for factors like psychosocial support, and policy environment measures (eg, regional and national transgender equality) did not appear to be associated with outcomes, although this may reflect measurement error (eg, scores were not available for the full study period or inconsistently measured from year to year).

No causal link demonstrated, potentially affected by other factors like how supportive your environment is.

I stand corrected, tadalafil is not OTC in many countries, only sildenafil is. Tadalafil is OTC where I live since 2022 and I assumed it’s the same elsewhere.

If this this drug had a female equivalent it wouldn’t be sold OTC because it’s dangerous to take it when you have high blood pressure. This study just piles up more evidence for it. I guess this is a rare instance where sexism inherent to medicine and pharmacology bites men in the butt.

My original comment was a bit more direct so I updated it to clarify a little and you probably read that version.

I think that leak is probably why this kind of analysis is possible at all.

I don’t know any single guys that collect Pokémon cards. I know two guys that collect Pokémon cards, are married and have children. Maybe women don’t want autistic children because likelihood of that is admittedly increased in this small sample. They’re missing out but you can’t force people to like something they don’t.

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This is way more complex to attribute blame to people of specific gender here.

Statistically speaking, at least in my country, women are now more likely to get a degree and move to a big city for work. In the big picture it isn’t because of some affirmative action (there’s some of that but it’s blown out of proportion) but simply because women are more likely to be socialised as diligent, agreeable and therefore more compatible with education and more employable in modern white collar jobs. Men are socialised to be somewhat unruly and aggressive (especially those from rural areas) so they stay behind to look after family farms and other businesses which often aren’t very profitable. This combined with little to no contact with women leads to them looking for something to blame for how their life turned out to be, usually ending with misogyny adjacent political ideology.

Current situation is similar to what suffragettes faced back in the day - they had to convince men but also swathes of women that they deserved equal rights. This toxic masculinity isn’t just harmful for women, it costs men a lot too - shorter lifespans, higher incarceration rates, higher suicide rates etc. We’d all be better off with some other masculinity model but it’s so ingrained into capitalism that both reinforce each other.

I wouldn’t absolve women of blame either. Same as every living person regardless of gender, they tend to look for a mate of similar social standing and are unlikely to compromise because there’s little reason to do so. This has strong classist undertones because that’s what it is. Men can compromise on it but for all the wrong reasons so I’m not saying that anything should be reversed here, rather we should rethink how all of this should work for the benefit of everyone. We emancipated women not because someone thought all humans are equal but because capitalism needed more workers and that’s probably where all of this went wrong.

Social isolation amplified by antisocial media is definitely a contributing factor in declining birthrates. If the cost of living was the only/primary reason you’d have more childless couples but people don’t pair up into couples in the first place. Good on China for not succumbing to at least some aspects of this madness.

Not being able to visualise images has no bearing on whether you can conceptualise surrounding space (positions, distances) or you wouldn’t be able to function at all. While aphantasia is not a medically recognised condition and therefore not exactly well studied there’s a lot to suggest it partially overlaps with autism. This in turn would explain tendency for bottom-up thinking - your brain has to systemise everything to understand it. At least that’s my intuition as someone with both.

What kind of meal takes 2 hours to eat.

Both personality traits and political views in this study were self reported. Intuition seems right but that’s not a great way to measure it.

While his party was in power Poland donated pretty much entire stock of post-Soviet tanks and jets to Ukraine with no questions asked. At the same time Western Europe was making deals in return for military assistance. The only reason some people in Poland say Kaczyński is pro-Russia is that they’re too high on their own farts to remember that. Yeah, PiS are a bunch of sad little men but Russia doesn’t need to be involved, Poles have been a bunch of homophobes without need for external help.

Coincidentally, I don’t think EU forcing Poland to recognise homosexual marriage is going to do any good for the cause. Poles have to decide it on their own, democratically rather than via rule of foreign judges. Kaczyński recognises this because he’s not dumb, so he’s going to use it.

Please don’t mix chilli peppers with anti-inflammatory drugs, they wreck your guts as it is lol.

It also matches preference of general public so one would say that algorithm works as expected?

I know EU has many programs in the area but one would expect it to become a bigger focus during an energy crisis, especially because it’s so cheap. So far the EC response is „accelerate electrification” which is something I’d expect to hear in 1950 and not 2030.