Battle of the sexes: who is more variable, and does it really matter?

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

1. On the importance of including both sexes in animal studies - insights from home-cage monitoring.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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2. Guidelines for sex-specific considerations to improve rigor in renal research and how we got there.American journal of physiology. Renal physiology · 2025
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3. Practical solutions for including sex as a biological variable (SABV) in preclinical neuropsychopharmacological research.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2024
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Corrections and comments

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  Mouse spontaneous behavior reflects individual variation rather than estrous state.2023

Authors and funding

1 author.

Funding

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Abstract

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