Sex and Gender
The Muddling of the American Mind – Part II
Apologies for the delay on publshing Part II. The weight of muddle proved too much for me at times! But I thought I must publish as far as I got… This is Part II of an appraisal of Steven Novella’s claim that it is “not scientifically controversial” that science is not a “binary” of male and female but a “bimodal distribution”. (Part 1 here) In short, is sex a discrete category that is objective and understandable, or is it more continuous and distributed and only characterised in rather arbitrary ways? We saw in Part I that the claim that sex [read more...]
