Maybe I'm misreading the above statement, but isn't it the responsibility of medical professionals to ask right questions? How could medically illiterate people be not noisy, when they don't know the causal relationship between medical phenomena.
There is extensive literature out there just a google away on the consistent misdiagnosis and under-treatment of women, both as a general trend and for particular diagnoses like heart attack or ADHD. The dismissal of "It's not a woman specific thing" belies the truth that there are women-specific biases against taking self-reported symptoms into account and receiving proper care, and data-collection biases where there simply isn't as much or as sufficient research in how the same disease presents differently in women.
Similar data exists for other groups (for example, pain treatment disparities for black people, because actual doctors with medical degrees think black people have "thicker skin" or "less nerve endings"), but we can acknowledge several kinds of systemic failure of medicine to meet the needs of whole classes of patients without undermining the rightful complains of those individual groups.
Nah, it's 2023 and problems are a bit different: https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/nih-genetics
On average, they very much are. Source: I have friends of both sexes. They're also shorter, anyone disputing that?
this isn't surprising to me, as a woman with several anxiety disorders - sex hormones have profound effects on the brain, and it matches my experience.
the issue is that doctors see more neurotic women than men who present with complaints that turn out to be benign, so they become dismissive. but women still get sick, even us hypochondriacs, so having a doctor primed to dismiss your issues is dangerous.
1. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223...
2. https://www.physio-pedia.com/Somatic_Symptom_Disorder (I've had trouble finding a non-paywalled source for the 10:1 but it seems to come from Medscape.)
3.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/215013190935333...
Women also score higher (on average) on Extraversion and Agreeableness.
If you aren't familiar with this research it's worth your time to learn about.
Even in 2023.
Of course, these are academic critiques which vary widely - none of which would support the assertion that the model is "not useful scientifically".
I'd be very surprised if any of the qualified academics that critique the Big 5 model would make such a claim.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
They're half a standard deviation more neurotic and have a very slightly wider distribution[1]. This means that there won't be much difference between the average man and woman but that the extremes of neuroticism that doctors experience (and memory!) will be biased towards will be heavily woman dominated.
[1] Table 2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149680/
That's sufficiently incorrect that there's an entire subfield of medicine dedicated to how incorrect it is. If you're interested in learning more, this is a pretty good study to start with: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08475-9