Well, yes, but this time round, the debate is informed by different factors.
Different mindsets, informed by different life experiences.
This diverse, multi-disciplinary collection of studies is informed by different theoretical perspectives.
Because analysis of the sex-biased genes identified by different metrics did not reveal an optimal metric or set of metrics, we chose to define a sex-biased gene based on its support by a minimum number of metrics, n.
Unicorns are magical creatures by nature, she explained, so she'd rather see startups dubbed "unicorns" judged by different metrics.
A lot of times, it's a pervasive but subtle tendency to push women in different directions, to reward them at a lower rate and judge them by different metrics than men.
To determine whether sets of genes identified by different metrics have unique properties, we compared the proportions of X-linked male- and female-biased genes among metrics.
These analyses reveal that — at least in this competition — it is very hard to make an assembly that performs consistently when assessed by different metrics within a species, or when assessed by the same metrics in different species.
First, we compare several independent metrics for classifying sex-biased genes and find that the overlap of genes identified by different metrics is small, particularly for female-biased genes.
This analysis revealed that genes identified by different metrics tend to have different genomic distributions (supplementary table S5, Supplementary Material online).
As discussed at the symposium, both Australia and New Zealand have research assessment programmes that place heavy emphasis on research excellence (S52) — a qualitative determination that is heavily informed by quantitative metrics concerning, for instance, how often a paper is cited (S64).
