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by brighteyes 12y ago
The treatments do not depend on the cause being an intersex condition or a brain syndrome. Modern medical support for trans people helps them far better than anything we had before, but not because it is tied intrinsically to any theory of
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by brighteyes 12y ago
> Taken as a whole, the science is pretty clear I don't think it is, unless you pick and choose what you read. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender#Transsexual_people_... mentions several studi
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by brighteyes 12y ago
> there are plenty of studies correlating sex-typical differences in the brain with gender dysphoria. There are also plenty of studies showing the opposite, as well as studies showing trans people being, on average, somewhere in between
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by brighteyes 12y ago
While I disagree with GP, I think there is a difference here. As GP mentioned, nerds tinkered with computers growing up, despite a stigma. There isn't such a social phenomenon for accounting or medicine, those are things that almost ev
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by brighteyes 12y ago
> If you look back at that graph, there must be some force that's pushing that red line down. Very possibly, but not necessarily. It's hard to judge the existence of causation from a correlation in one aspect of this issue. Her
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by brighteyes 12y ago
Your first paragraph raises some reasonable questions. It's worth asking those. Your second paragraph leaps to a negative conclusion. It's far from clear what the results would be - good or bad - for people already in the industry
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by brighteyes 12y ago
Actually no, men in nursing are discriminated against and have it pretty hard. See for example this link: http://www.minoritynurse.com/article/men-nursing > studies have shown that male student nurses experience add
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by brighteyes 12y ago
The graph is potentially misleading in that there is no weight for the various majors. This can be misleading just like Simpson's Paradox ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox ). Perhaps more men ente
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by brighteyes 12y ago
For nursing, see this for example about efforts to get more men into the field http://www.minoritynurse.com/article/men-nursing > Despite efforts from nursing schools across the nation to recruit and retain more men
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by brighteyes 12y ago
For me, the interesting thing is how this was overlooked by almost everyone that read the statistics. People just saw large amounts of white people and of men in the data, and jumped to the "obvious" usual conclusion about overrep
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by brighteyes 12y ago
There isn't any evidence that Vivint did anything against the "rules". You're jumping to defend google pretty quickly, almost automatically. Just because you like them, doesn't mean they are always in the right. The
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In articles about the google diversity numbers, many people were "shocked by how overwhelmingly white and male they are" and similar things. The implication is clearly that overrepresentation of white males is a problem. Hence whi
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by brighteyes 12y ago
> Making society more fair is a good goal. Reducing the white male preference in the job market should be a social responsibility for a company that greatly impacts our daily lives. The data Google just posted contradicts you. 61% of Goo
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by brighteyes 13y ago
Are you saying you consider the political views of almost all Republicans "unacceptable", and you wouldn't work in the same place as them? Because - sadly, because I agree with you that they are wrong - over half of Californi
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by brighteyes 13y ago
Furthermore, while 95% of us on HN (including me) support gay marriage, the fact is that over half the population of California had the same opinion as Eich, back in 2008. He supported a very mainstream position. Even if it is not mainstrea