1. Observable differences: from an observable study it would be sufficient to conclude men are generally taller than women.
2. Your second point about blinding is a valid critique. That doesn’t mean the study doesn’t purport to show what it shows…just that it’s a valid critique which should justifiably influence the confidence in the conclusion (it also doesn’t make it zero because of the below)
3. The ability to blind is limited. Why? Well that’s why I started with my first question about whether you accept that there are observable differences in male and female brains. Because you have to have a baseline to conduct the analysis and any one familiar with neurophysiology (heck I could do it) will be able to tell the difference between a male and female brain instantly. So controlling for that is a problem. The differences are just that vast.
4. How do we know the male female differences are conclusive? That easy they’ve run them through ai and had the ai do it. The studies in the last 4 years on the subject have been fascinating
5. So how do we control for it? Well the studies have been run in excess of 20 times and have run a variety of measures including hormonal, neuropathways, structure sizes, neurological responses. It’s enough to comfortably determine something is going on here.
6. Why then don’t they use ai to do the comparison? It’s simple. Something happened in 2018 that the lgbtq community began objecting to these trans studies. Why? Well part of the concern is around the concern that researchers became uncomfortable with the male female studies because of the ramifications. So why were they able to run it through ai? Because the sample size is larger so it’s easier to get participants.
7. Sample size is actually a much more valid critique of the studies since short of ai (which itself might be influenced by the programmer and would be to be programmed “dumb” to not prejudge) there is no way to completely control for the blind issue, which as you know is a common problem in observational studies, such as if we were to conduct a study comparing the heights of men and women
8. That’s why the autism link is so fascinating (but it’s also subject to the critique that the diagnosis of autism and whether someone is on the spectrum is more of an art than a science). But that’s just a statistical number that indicates there is a correlation (but not necessarily causation) because the incidence of reported autism runs higher in the trans pop
9. So if your point is “it hasn’t been proved” you are entirely correct. But if your point is there is no proof that there is a neurological connection then that’s just hooey. There’s enough proof now to say there more likely than not is such a connection though we cant exactly say for sure what that connection is.
10. Were back to you are willing to excuse the methodolgy when you agree with the conclusion but not when you don’t. Which is your usual dreck.