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Steven Shorrock
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Psychologist & transdisciplinary humanistic, systems & design practitioner in aviation & healthcare. Editor. Complexity, work, organisations, safety, autism, alt music, daughter’s musings
FBPsS CPsychol CErgHF PhD 🐝♾️🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 humanisticsystems.com
Seems this reflects a general finding that significant advantages remain (in muscle mass, bone structure and density, VO2 max, as well as any height and reach advantage obviously), hence the suggested open/third category. There’s usually a middle way, or I like to think so…
April 5, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Not my expertise but this is one of the papers on the specific sport pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Don’t know of other research but the proposal seems sound.
The Participation of Trans Women in Competitive Fencing and Implications on Fairness: A Physiological Perspective Narrative Review - PubMed
Debate has surrounded whether the participation of trans women in female sporting categories is fair, specifically the retained male physiological advantage due to increased testosterone compared to c...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
April 4, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I’ve been only twice. The border police treatment entering from Canada 8 years or so ago was bad enough.
March 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I mean... holy shit.
March 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Psychology as a whole neglected complexity and systems thinking. Neither were taught on my degree and I only discovered after (through systems ergonomics/human factors).
March 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I like this take on the question! I sort of took anaesthetists to be the more patient of the medics.

In that case I’ll go with neglect of custom.
March 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Pressed send to early, this was 15’s question to me 😅
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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5/11 ⚠️ Notably, we found no evidence that physician associates add value in primary care or that anaesthetic associates contribute positively in anaesthetics. If you add cost of supervision, which the studies don’t, it’s very unlikely they are cost-effective
March 7, 2025 at 5:25 AM