December 13, 2024 – William M. Briggs

Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?

Keeping with Fadeback Fridays, which is soon to be an international success, this classic post, which originally ran on 23 December 2016. It's yet another in an endless supply of…

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Truth: Pregnant women are mothers from the first instant of conception, whether they abort their child/children, or not. From the…
Hagfish Bagpipe on Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?December 13, 2024
Your point is well taken, Briggs, but in the greater scheme of Modernismo how are the Overlords supposed to move…
Mike Anderson on Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?December 13, 2024
@B G Charlton Amen to all that! And more: stratification might have allowed a nonlinear model to be fit, e.g.…
Pk on Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?December 13, 2024
I wonder if the specific women in this study were paid less than the men were. Or, was the pay…
Paul Fischer on Who’s Better at Playing Doctor, Boys Or Girls?December 13, 2024
1,000 covariates? That’s absurd. How can anyone claim to understand what’s happening in that mess? And with an N of…