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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
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that’s a clinical bias, the person above was asking about a research bias.
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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/biomedical-research-sex-male-female-animal-human-studies
as of 2019:
I want to know where you think clinical criteria come from
Edit: your article describes a study that found research to be dominated by male biology when it was published 2011. This article found a nine year average delay in updating clinical guidelines. People who were in university to be a doctor within the last ten years are likely still operating on older research, unless they have taken the time to stay up to date.
I have a year left on my BS in Biology. There is so much new research coming out that I read, that I know my classmates don't have the time for. So what we are taught from textbooks is what they learn, and this is a large part of where they get their biases from
clinical bias is not necessarily from the criteria. often the clinician is the one introducing the bias all on their own.