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uBiome – The Largest Human Microbiome Dataset (ubiome.com)
2 points by sprague on Oct 29, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Title: "8% of uBiome customers are transgender"

From article: >8% come from people who identify with non-binary gender.

Is this title just made up? I don't see any evidence that "non-binary gender" means transgender. By my reading of the term, there are several different buckets of gender identification that could be feeding into that number, not all of them transgender. Furthermore, some transgender people might not describe themselves as identifying with non-binary gender. It's hard to draw a conclusion such as that implied by the title.


Interesting stat from a blog post announcing uBiome has the world's largest microbiome dataset: "47% of our samples come from female users, 45% coming from male users, and 8% come from people who identify with non-binary gender."




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