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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Comment About Male Genetic Disposition
Comment from this article about male aggression being genetically determined...
"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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