"This happened thirty years ago, now. Do you think the answers (on both sides) might have been different?"

Figured, but thought I would check. Never quite sure about the distribution of things.

Okay, to clarify: I know it's clearly sexist here. What I was trying to ask is, is honey considered a gendered term of endearment in general?

Mathematicians have been dealing with this knowledge for a long time.

Is honey considered to be gendered?

The low cost and ready availability of empty calories (ala fries and soda) is primarily a consequence of US agricultural policies. To put it simply, per calorie, nutrient-light, carbohydrate-heavy foods are much cheaper than their nutrient-dense, macronutrient-balanced counterparts. If you really want to make it…

The real question is, would you ever cheat on yourself?

I agree, I just get really annoyed when articles portray complicated court cases as simple issues. There's usually so much more going on.

But how can I tell if you're trolling if you always use periods, rather than saving them to demarcate passive-aggressive sentences?

Ending sentences with actual punctuation is totally cool. Arguing about interrogatives might make people think you're mad at them, though, or at least attempting to subject them to text-based torture.

Yes, this does seem like a far more complicated and nuanced case than is being described here. It looks like it involves issues of legal jurisdiction, especially now that California courts have ruled one way and New York courts another. I can definitely understand the concern that the initial ruling (along with…

You're totally right about the optimal sampling being more "average" than it is in reality. In a perfect world, clinical trials would sample uniformly from the general population. This is pretty close to true in some fields (education policy RCTs, for example). Clinical trials have two big catches, though (both…

Chai think these comments are ado-rooibos.

Before a medical society or pharmaceutical company will / can recommend higher doses, those doses have to be tested. This is a costly process, and slow, because there's less drive (and funding) from the business side to do dosing / interaction studies once a drug has been approved for a particular use.

The ECs were obviously tested on women over 165 lbs. First, there is no way you're going to get a drug past clinical trials with a sample population of only petite women. Second, the 2011 study is a meta-analysis of prior studies.

Meh, press! That's a really depressing example, too.

"The scientific discourse of "men change around women!" both reflects and reinforces this value system."

You can do it with combinations or permutations, it's just that the permutations have equal probability and are thus easier to think about.

Yes! Each permutation is not equally probable, whether because of stopping criteria (best case) or gender-based abortions (worst-case).

The frequency of gender-based abortions, in cultures where they are common, are not independent of the gender of prior children.