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It’s hard to imagine many competitive events where biological advantages wouldn’t be important.
by baddox 8y ago
It’s hard to imagine many competitive events where biological advantages wouldn’t be important.
- prepend 8y agoI can’t think of too many. Maybe target shooting. Or darts. It’s now a fun data analysis project to look for Olympic sports with continuous, ratio dats that results in ranking where men and women are similar. And start there.
- baddox 8y agoI wasn’t thinking about only biological differences between men and women, but that’s a prominent dichotomy to look at. I think that one big problem with trying to find a competitive event where men and women don’t seem to have biological differences in performance is that, at least according to my impression of the United States, it’s more socially acceptable for boys to obsess over and dedicate a lot of time toward a very specific sport/competition/hobby/interest. I suspect that regardless of any purely biological differences, this cultural tendency will tend to favor males in most competitive events that are fairly well-known and have well-established rules.