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dichotomize
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Her central argument is that the act of rape takes place within a symbolic order that systematically and symbolically erases or problematizes women's sexual subjectivity, thereby simultaneously erasing and normalizing the damage of rape, which repeats the larger order's erasure of women's sexual subjectivity, an erasure that stems from the dichotomizing of female sexuality and female agency.
Given the positively skewed distribution of the composite STI risk score (mode = 0), the STI risk outcome measure was derived by dividing the scale score into quartiles and then dichotomizing it into a comparison between the highest scoring quartile versus all lower scores.
The authors suggest that future research should "recognize different subgroups of young [men who have sex with men] who use the Internet rather than dichotomizing Internet users and nonusers.
 
 
 
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