• girlfreddy
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    41 year ago

    @LouNeko @rephlekt2718

    It also developed from scientists trying to keep things simple. Women’s bodies are a lot more complicated than men’s in terms of varying ratios of hormones, pregnancy, etc that have to be accounted for in studies. Same reason HeLa cells and genetically-identical mice are used.

    It’s still not a justifiable reason to neglect 50% of the population under the incorrect assumption that human physiology is the same across the board.

    • @Piers
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      41 year ago

      It’s still not a justifiable reason to neglect 50% of the population under the incorrect assumption that human physiology is the same across the board.

      I’m not sure who’s worse. The people planning research who still mistakenly believe that it’s correct to just study one group and presume it applies to a group that would have been more complicated to study or the ones who know it doesn’t work that way but just pretend it does because it’s more convenient.

      Don’t get me wrong, there are contexts where doing an imperfect job now and trying to fill in the details later is the best strategy. But I don’t believe that’s actually what’s going on most of the time.