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There are going to be plenty of women who are more interested in things than the median man Probably. Distributions don't necessarily have a huge amount of ove
by causi 4y ago
There are going to be plenty of women who are more interested in things than the median man
Probably. Distributions don't necessarily have a huge amount of overlap. For example, upper body strength is also a distribution but the overlap is so small that 95% of men have stronger arms than 95% of women. With something as general as aptitude for things vs people the overlap is probably much greater than that but not certain without more data.
- kqr 4y agoYou're not strictly contradicting GP. "5 % of women" is still "plenty of women".
- causi 4y ago95/95 does not mean 5% of women are stronger than the median man. The group of women stronger than the median man is tiny fractions of a percent. https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-51a4b98a4975f1bc2e68c2c0dc1b5730-lq https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-51a4b98a4975f1bc2e68c... https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c76c62e97e58fe9a64a83dad92a02e89-lq https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c76c62e97e58fe9a64a83...
- kqr 4y agoOops, my bad. Yes, you're right, of course.
- beebmam 4y agoThis cannot be the case. More than 5% of the male population is old, weak, and/or disabled that it can't possibly be true that 95% of all men have stronger arms than 95% of women. And if you include children I don't see how this could possibly be true. Unless you mean something else?
- causi 4y agoAnd if you include children I don't see how this could possibly be true. There are female children too. More than 5% of the male population is old, weak, and/or disabled There are old, weak, and disabled women as well. Additionally, if you think old men are weak I suspect you have never had to wrestle an eighty year old with dementia out of a bath tub. They are remarkably, irritatingly strong.
- prmoustache 4y agoI would argue that one should discern strength when actually caring or not caring to injure someone else in the process.
- causi 4y agoI don't know what you're saying here.
- tmtvl 4y agoI think parent is saying something like "rather than measuring strength by wrestling old men out of bathtubs, we should measure it in a way that doesn't get different results based on how much one cares about not hurting another person." I agree, of course, but I believe the wrestling comment did not refer to the methodology used in the research.
- prmoustache 4y agoThat an old man with dementia who feel he has to defend himself will use full force while the people who the nurse/caregiver will consciently and inconsciently restrain themselves in order to not break any bones or harm the person they are taking care of.
- causi 4y agoHow does this relate to my anecdote about old men having more strength than you might expect?
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