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That is actually pretty cool, but I believe you meant to say "biological sex" instead of "gender". :P

I have no clue how an AI may find the gender (which is in the mind) of someone through x-rays alone.



the mathematical correlation between the two is so high as to be negligible


What does this mean? I do not think anyone could determine my gender based on x-rays alone. My biological sex, however, definitely.


It's simple math. If the correlation between gender and sex is 0.99 then if a method can determine your sex with say a 90% accuracy then it can determine your gender with an 89% accuracy (very roughly). The difference is negligible.


"Gender" is often used as a synonym of "sex".

The more recent and somewhat controversial concept of it being an identity isn't the only sense of the word.


> "Gender" is often used as a synonym of "sex"

It used to be the case, yes, I agree, but these days people are referring to gender identity when they talk about gender, IME.




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