Really? Maybe my variable names and column headers were sufficiently obscure and technical that I didn’t run into these issues about a month ago. Didn’t have any problems like that when analyzing census data in R and made Copilot generate most of the code.

Actually, at one point I converted the data to factors, and I think I may have even defined the categories for sexual orientation and gender identity. Those words were explicitly in the code, and Copilot didn’t have any issues with that.

Can you get around it by renaming fields? Sox or jander? Ethan?

Specifically, it will not write the word "Gender" where it will write "HomePhone".

Maybe there's some setting that's causing us to get different results?

Edit: saw your note about U.S. exclusive and that could definitely be it.

Why would anyone rename a perfectly valid variable name to some garbage term just to please our Microsoft Newspeak overlords? That would make the code less readable and more error prone. Also everything with human data has a field for sex or gender somewhere, driver's licenses, medical applications, biological studies and all kinds of other forms use those terms.

But nobody really needs to use copilot to code, so maybe just get rid of it or use an alternative.

There's 2 ways to go on it. Either not track the data, which is what they want you to do, and protest until they let you use the proper field names, or say fuck their rules, track the data anyway, and you can produce the reports you want. And you can still protest, and when you get the field names back it's just a replace all tablename.gender with tablename.jander. Different strokes different folks

Yeah, or something will die because lab result baselines that are dependent on sex get fucked up.

Politics need to stay the fuck out of medicine. Having people try and do a political dance around lab science is a recipe for disaster.

US horseshoe reality. The right is anti vaccines the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine. I feel bad for normal people living in the US. It's like common sense and pragmatism was bred out of the gene pool.

That does not match with my experience

the left is dogmatically anti-biology in medicine

lolwut

Accepting that gender is a social construct has literally nothing to do with biology. Leftists still understand what sex means.

even the most diehard Leftists still understand what biological sex mean.

In two words: Binary; Immutable.

Who's anti-biology, again?

What value is there you knowing my expression of ARHGAP1? What about TP53BP1?

Should have specified, I'm using GitHub Copilot, not the regular chat bot.

Ah. Makes sense that your experience may not match mine then.