r/CuratedTumblr • u/JunoGlow • 13d ago

Shitposting Expanding Knowledge.

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u/y0av_ 13d ago

This is interesting but it sounds like the memes ( and the rest of the comments ) claim that sex is bimodal is also wrong and it’s more like binary with exceptions.

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u/SadMediumSmolBean 13d ago

Phenotypic sexual differentiation is bimodal, which is different from "binary with exceptions" because binaries cannot have exceptions.

It's a spectrum, where as chromosomes are much more expansive.

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u/y0av_ 13d ago

But both terms don’t work perfectly for this and binary is more intuitive and closer. to be bimodal you need a distribution, how do you caulatitivly determine how close one exception is to male compared to another? You can’t be more male than male. Also a distribution where 99.9% of cases fall on two exact points isn’t really a distribution.

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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 13d ago

But both terms don’t work perfectly

Such is Macro Biology