Thursday, 14 March 2013

Stanford: Gender Orientation: IS Conditions Within The TS Brain

at 3/14/2013 12:03:00 pm
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3 comments:

dentedbluemercedes said...

A quick correction, this was from Robert Sapolsky at Stanford.

Thanks for posting it!

Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:50:00 pm
Nikola Kovacs said...

I love Professor Sapolsky Zoe. You put me onto him last time you posted something of his ...

Thanks

Friday, March 15, 2013 7:11:00 am
sillyolme said...

Unfortunately, this prof is repeating, uncritically, what the researchers SAID that their data represented and their conclusions, not what the data itself was, and what reasonable conclusions were. That data says that this effect was an "activational" effect, not an "organizational" effect. That is to say, that HRT, or more specifically, the lack of male hormones, caused this area of the brain to shrink to female dimentions. They did not start out that way. The researchers made two mistakes. First, they included data points that they shouldn't have (null results as "zero" size) and they didn't bother to run a time series plot, which when I used their data, clearly showed that the longer one was on HRT, the smaller this neural feature. For the detailed analysis, read my essay on this paper: http://sillyolme.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/the-incredable-shrinking-brain/

--Kay Brown (aka: Cloudy)

Saturday, March 16, 2013 8:37:00 am

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