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The Need for Adequate Statistical Analyses to Estimate Gender Imbalance: A Comment on Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (2019)

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Costa, A., Salvidio, S. The Need for Adequate Statistical Analyses to Estimate Gender Imbalance: A Comment on Teixeira da Silva and Dobránszki (2019). Arch Sex Behav 49, 37–39 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01586-w

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