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It's not remotely ambiguous? It has two meanings, the biological sex of an organism and the biological reproduction of that organism.

Gigachad 4y ago
You just provided the example of how its ambiguous. It makes titles confusing when you don't know exactly which meaning is meant. While using "gender" in the title would have been clearer, especially as mice don't have social constructs that we associate with the term.
- ghidle 4y ago
  In this context, "experimenters' sex" can only reasonably mean whether the experimenter was female or male. The other alternative would have been them doing some experimental fucking next to the mice to see what happens. Such a paper would undoubtedly have been titled differently.
  - irrational 4y ago
    So… what does happen? Surely someone has already done that experiment.
- oldstrangers 4y ago
  It's not though. Literally at all. "Experimenters' (possessive) sex" : so, their biological sex is the only thing they can posses in this sentence. They can't "possess" sexual reproduction in this context, that would not make any sense. This is just simple grammar. Gender would also make zero sense because this is not an article about gender. I can understand the confusion if English isn't your first language but outside of that it's very clear.
drewcoo 4y ago
ambiguous 2: capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous
- IncRnd 4y ago
  The word "senses" from your definition can be understood multiple ways. Yet, the meaning is absolutely clear from the context, just as the word sex is in the article. You are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
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- oldstrangers 4y ago
  "capable" Thanks to grammar, we are literally incapable of understanding "sex" in this context to mean anything other than biological sex. I can't believe I'm having to explain this multiple times. The only argument people are making is that they lack the reading comprehension to understand the sentence correctly.

Gigachad 4y ago

You just provided the example of how its ambiguous. It makes titles confusing when you don't know exactly which meaning is meant. While using "gender" in the title would have been clearer, especially as mice don't have social constructs that we associate with the term.

ghidle 4y ago
In this context, "experimenters' sex" can only reasonably mean whether the experimenter was female or male. The other alternative would have been them doing some experimental fucking next to the mice to see what happens. Such a paper would undoubtedly have been titled differently.
- irrational 4y ago
  So… what does happen? Surely someone has already done that experiment.
oldstrangers 4y ago
It's not though. Literally at all. "Experimenters' (possessive) sex" : so, their biological sex is the only thing they can posses in this sentence. They can't "possess" sexual reproduction in this context, that would not make any sense. This is just simple grammar. Gender would also make zero sense because this is not an article about gender. I can understand the confusion if English isn't your first language but outside of that it's very clear.

drewcoo 4y ago

ambiguous 2: capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ambiguous

IncRnd 4y ago
The word "senses" from your definition can be understood multiple ways. Yet, the meaning is absolutely clear from the context, just as the word sex is in the article. You are trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.
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oldstrangers 4y ago
"capable" Thanks to grammar, we are literally incapable of understanding "sex" in this context to mean anything other than biological sex. I can't believe I'm having to explain this multiple times. The only argument people are making is that they lack the reading comprehension to understand the sentence correctly.