alt Hacker NewsIn measuring grips strength, which is a good proxy for general strength, 90% of females producing less force than 95% of males. In other words almost all men are stronger than almost all women.
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overfeed • yesterday at 5:49 PM
An army that can't mold recruits to perform all the duties expected of a soldier is no army at all. Boot camps include a healthy amount of physical and endurance training.
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eesmith • yesterday at 5:06 PM
If that factoid were at all important then the military should use grip strength to determine who to draft, not gender.
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Some of the best pilots ever have been women. Whatever the population distributions are, if a woman wants to join she should be permitted to, with no presumptions about her limits. You risk never finding some of the best talent if you shut out women.