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Medical science is in fact terribly biased against women because the standard baseline is almost always a typical male body
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Source for the 7% statistic
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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Issues that affect both women and men still often tend to affect both in different ways -- but the majority of medical research tends to just take what works for the standard male body and apply that to everyone regardless of sex instead of investigating sex-specific effects and tailoring solutions around that
that’s a clinical bias, the person above was asking about a research bias.
edit:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/biomedical-research-sex-male-female-animal-human-studies
as of 2019:
clinical bias is not necessarily from the criteria. often the clinician is the one introducing the bias all on their own.