Variability of temperature measurements recorded by a wearable device by biological sex.
Lauryn Keeler BrucePatrick KaslSeverine SoltaniVarun K ViswanathWendy HartogensisStephan DilchertFrederick M HechtAnoushka ChowdharyClaudine AngloLeena PandyaSubhasis DasguptaIlkay AltintasAmarnath GuptaAshley E MasonBenjamin L SmarrPublished in: Biology of sex differences (2023)
These findings contradict the viewpoint that human females are too variable across menstrual cycles to include in biomedical research. Longitudinal temperature of females does not accumulate greater measurement error over time than do males and the majority of unexplained variance is within sex category, not between them.