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IIRC the distribution doesn't actually overlap all that much.

• throw93833848 1y ago
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• HideousKojima 1y ago
  Specifically you need to be in the top 10% for female grip strength to be stronger than the bottom 5% of male grip strength.
• dahart 1y ago
  That’s a subjective statement. Here’s a picture, and I’d say there’s a decent amount of overlap. https://briefedbydata.substack.com/p/female-vs-male-grip-strength https://briefedbydata.substack.com/p/female-vs-male-grip-str...
  • ses1984 1y ago
    >In fact, just 17 of the 2,515 females, or less than 0.1%, have a summed grip strength greater than the median summed grip strength of males. You’re right, it’s subjective, but that’s not what I would call a decent overlap.
    • dahart 1y ago
      You’re not quoting the overlap, you’re quoting the (IMO) misleading framing that compares extremes. If you look at the picture, roughly one third of the distribution has overlap. It’s not a majority, but it’s certainly not negligible either. BTW, the 0.1% number may be sampling noise, as similar studies have come up with numbers like 1% or 3%. While they’re all small, 3% is 30x larger than 0.1%. Don’t put a lot of stock in that number; it’s trying to draw conclusions from the noisiest lowest-data part of the distribution, and therefore is highly prone to error.