7/24/2007
gender comparison: women vs men: upper body strength
And wow, have I come up with some resources. Particularly because a lot of people have bought into the feminist bs over the years, I thought it would be important to share.
From a study in 2000 examining the effect of affirmative action on police hiring, a comparison of male and female public safety officers found that female officers had 32 percent to 56 percent less upper-body strength and 18 percent to 45 percent less lower-body strength than male officers.(Lott, 2005)
The point can be applied to the women in combat argument. The proponents of women in combat can’t seem to-or what’s worse, are unwilling to- connect the dots, unfortunately.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
References another blog is hardly referring to a study. So what gives here. Another thing please fix the spam protection so it will accept a number spelled out or typed as a numeral.
The distributions I have seen and can probably dig up have a moderately greater degree of overlap. These have been done by a whole group of physical factors study groups. Even more curiously women from Scandanavian countries have an even greater degree of overlap with men especially in upper body strength. Also as subpopulation women who engage in serious physical training can most often past the standard physical fitness tests and not the watered down versions.
Even more curious is the fact that the best predictor of physical strength both upper and lower body, So oddly height standard might be oddly fair which is what we are after.
I have seen a number of women who were seriously into physical training who could and did pass the physical strength and agility tests for fire departments which were not seriously watered down. So that would seem to be a way to go and it would be eminently fair and might actually read to a meritocratic system.
Have Fun,
Sends Steve