Rough Beast

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Grifo Mecanico - Diego Mazzeo

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Comment About Male Genetic Disposition

Comment from this article about male aggression being genetically determined...

Gaussian (Normal) Distribution
"There are two populations. Each is a skewed normal distribution with the median of the male population slightly higher than the median of the female population. Some women are more aggressive than the average male. Some men are less aggressive than most women. Note that the single most important metric and the one that is conspicuously omitted is the median score on EITHER distribution or the spread (standard deviation or 'sigma') of the populations. The behaviors of the females could be closely bunched around the mean (a small standard deviation) and the males could have a wide spread of behavioral norms (a large standard deviation). When breathless articles about genetic predestination leave out these salient facts -- you are being lied to." KNH

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