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It depends a bit on each individuals circumstances and the sport in which they're trying to participate, does it not? I understand you believe your approach is fact based, but that just means you've ignored the biology-focused content our biology and other experts have repeatedly shared here in this thread. You can continue working from a foundational premise that only two genders exist and everything else is some sort of "woke nonsense," but simply repeating a mistake over and over doesn't magically make it correct.

IINM, no evidence of trans dominance has yet been provided. This assumption rests at the heart of your entire position, yet remains unfounded. Maybe one anecdote about one athlete, but anecdotes do not evidence make. More specifically, the categories aren't as hard and independent as you and others keep suggesting. Spectrum, not binary. Literally non-binary. What advantage is that, again? Your self-assured ability to forecast the future is impressive. Can you use this same power of yours to please tell us next weeks lottery numbers?

Statistically? Sure, of course. Morally and ethically, though? Not so much.

The buoyancy also surely plays a role... having relief from the ever present pull of gravity on our muscles and skeleton while floating through water is itself quite stress relieving.

Just looking at that photo makes my adrenaline and cortisol levels decrease!

Does $100 represent total production costs (materials, labor and payroll, property and overhead, shipping, insurance, taxes, etc.), or does it represent only your raw materials costs? If the first, then you don’t have enough info to answer. If the second, then your 20% drop in costs results in your profit going from $25 instead to $45. That represents a 56% profit (up from the original 25% profit earned with the higher materials costs).

Professor Gilden?!? When did you change your first name to Steve? Depends on the nature of the research. For things where harm is unlikely, they only need to be given the opportunity to be informed, but can sign off without first being forced to comprehend. There are usually institutional review boards overseeing such things. Is there a particular problem you have with me? Thanks for the neg rep. Please stop abusing the PM system and instead keep the conversation here out in the open.

The skin suit surely adds to this, much like a thunder coat for dogs who fear lightening storms. There’s a thing called the dive reflex which also results in changes to our blood flow through the trigeminal and vagus nerves: https://dan.org/alert-diver/article/how-the-dive-reflex-protects-the-brain-and-heart/ A whole greater than the sum of its parts…

For someone who uses it so often in his own posts, I find it strange you’re so unfamiliar with hyperbole in those submitted by others.

Sensory deprivation is another potential explanation for the calming effect. While it can cause overwhelming anxiety in some, it can often quiet and soothe raving racing minds in others. I suggest being underwater deprives us of nearly all of the sounds so common in our terrestrial days, and the peace from audio triggers that come from that may be part of the answer here.

Panpsychism is what it drew to mind for me. Also, wasn’t elan vital brother to gore vidal? It’s literally impossible to exist anywhere else.

Do you believe the way rudeness gets measured and classified (and who defines those classifications) has no bearing on the ethics of any research into it? Who are you again?

In any sense One is more immersive So perhaps in that sense

You’re the one proposing we research rudeness. I asked by what measure and told me nothing in reply. It’s your study idea, not mine. To be frank, I’m comfortable with ignoring it and flushing it down the drain. You should consider reading up on it. We’ve been doing it for decades.

The quiet in a house cannot be equated with the quiet of underwater.

I think the rule that players on the baseball field are allowed to wear gloves and mits and better catch balls I hit their way with the bat is unfair. It’s sports. It’s literally a set of arbitrary rules than can be arguably changed. I also think it’s unfair that hockey players get to rest on a bench when lines change and penalties occur. The rules should say they must do pull-ups while they wait, otherwise it’s not fair. Fairness will never be absolute, but that doesn’t mean that some choices aren’t more fair or less fair than others across the most number of people. This is all an awful lot of handwringing and panty twisting for all 11 of those trans athletes out there actually trying to compete.

Perhaps learn that an autodidactic may learn things in parallel, not just serially.

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It may be as simple as the deep concentrated focus it brings. All noise goes quiet when you dive and otherwise fall into a meditation doing something about which you’re passionate.

What is your metric for rudeness? Is it binary yes/no, or does it have different intensities along a scale? Who gets to decide these ratings, and how is bias removed or minimized before averages and analyses get conducted? It needs to allow consent to be informed. These aren’t new questions (see also previous comments about reinvented wheels) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5980471/

Neither

As our experiences change, so does the information we must transmit to fellow members of our pack or tribe. New words evolve to align with those new experiences, and the words which work best and most efficiently get selected for.

It may be beneficial to learn more about what has been previously and what is already being done today so you may better focus your energies into remaining gaps (instead of wheel reinvention)

What if we do both? It depends rather a lot on how we do it as well as why.

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