You know one of the creators of the format reckons it should be pronounced like that right? Apparently he intended it to be pronounced like 'Jiff' the peanut butter brand.

Yeah fair enough to say the methods are flawed (I don't know enough about it to judge), but so many people are talking about SES here as if it hadn't even been considered by the researchers.

There are certain statistical analyses that are used when you expect the presence of a confounding factor such as SES that are used to control for and take the factor into account, even when sample populations differ. From my reading of the study they did this, specifically statistically controlling for SES when doing…

So there are a lot of people here commenting and bringing up possible methodological issues that if they had bothered to read the study were actually considered and addressed by the researchers.

Other articles about this study mention that the authors did specifically control for SES and other factors. Critiquing a study's methods is fine, but you kind of have to read the actual paper first.

For fuck's sake, why is everyone assuming the authors didn't control for socio economic status? They did!

The study actually took this into account. They controlled for socio economic status.

The study controlled for socio economic status, so this effect is not caused by same sex parents having more money.

The study controlled for socio economic status.

It's different when you choose to call yourself something, to some stranger shaming your for your personal grooming choices, with the weight of societal pressures behind them. Society tells us every day that there's something wrong with us if we choose not to go along with the current fashion for hair removal, so I…

A "gorilla"? Seriously, fuck you.

Men are actually capable of producing milk and breastfeeding. so I would guess it's a 'backup' in case something happens to the mother's milk supply.

Given that the full-body scanners haven't been shown to prevent one terrorist attack yet, I think that telling trans people their horrible experiences are a necessary part of preventing terrorism a bit inappropriate.

From your link:

"By science", huh? Care to supply some references?
Oh and by the way, it's not just the ligaments that hurt when I'm unsupported, it's the skin too. Feeling one's skin stretch under a heavy weight is an exquisitely uncomfortable sensation, and there's no way you can convince me that skin strengthens itself after being…

Sorry, when something really really hurts I assume it's bad for me.
Also, ligaments are not like muscles, you can't 'exercise' them. The more pressure you put on them, the more they will stretch and weaken.

Haha I guess I've had to get good at height conversions as I'm 189 cm tall but when I was growing up all the adults asked me my height in feet and inches :P

6'1" is actually about 185 cm, so still a fair way off 2 metres!

True, although we are all unfortunately in far less control of our own minds than we think. Consciousness seems to just be a superficial layer on top of a whole system that we cannot control or are even aware of.

It might have sounded fake because it's not his real accent. He's from London so he sounds a bit cockney in real life, I guess they wanted him to put on a different, more 'posh' English accent for Pacific Rim.