It's always fun to answer Yes, to the question "Are you male of female".

At 09:22 AM 10/3/03 -0400, you wrote:
In the 2000 US Census, "Sex" is defined as "Based on self-reporting of gender." I guess that gave people some flexibility in their answer? :-)

--jc

On Friday, October 3, 2003, at 08:26 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote:

...Evidently sex is a pure physical discitnction whereas gender refers to the
psychological, behavioral, or cutltural traits associated with the
sexes, so that then latter is a continuous and not a binary variable.
At least this was the answer I got when I suggested we use the word
"gender" on a survey....

I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan




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