• TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    there are no multidimensional graphs here. that’s my entire point. they are all 2d graphs with one axis.

    the ‘argument’ seems to think taking traits measured on a graph, and mashing them together is like… multidimensional sex or something, it’s convoluted, and it’s premises underline it’s conclusion.

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      Isn’t that the point though? Sex and gender are a collection of traits that in the majority of cases seem binary, but when you dig into the individual factors that comprise them, you find a more complex and sometimes unintuitive set of results. None of the actual graphs are multidimensional, but we call the overall result multidimensional.

      It’s the whole reason the political discourse exists. There is no way to summarize every metric into a binary without excluding some people. The right-wing treats this as a gatcha whereas the left points to how the science is much more robust than some consider. This article is a further demonstration of that.