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Comments on Ethical Reporting and Interpretations of Findings in Hsu, Rosenthal, and Bailey’s (2014) “The Psychometric Structure of Items Assessing Autogynephilia”

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  1. Calculated by combining the means of the subgroups reported by Blanchard (1993): nude M = 7.8, n = 94; partially clothed M = 6.8, n = 67; and fully clothed M = 5.6, n = 77.

  2. The overall mean score for Blanchard's sample corresponds to z = 0.57 in Hsu et al.’s sample. The percentage figure was calculated from obtaining the area under the normal curve. While this assumes a normal distribution for the Pure Gender Dysphoria scale in Hsu et al.'s sample, Hsu et al. did not note that this scale was skewed, but they did note that other scales were skewed, so this seems like a reasonable assumption.

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Veale, J.F. Comments on Ethical Reporting and Interpretations of Findings in Hsu, Rosenthal, and Bailey’s (2014) “The Psychometric Structure of Items Assessing Autogynephilia”. Arch Sex Behav 44, 1743–1746 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0552-y

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