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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The fastest marathon time for men is 2 hours 1 minute and for women it is 2 hours 14 minutes.

It's an unacceptable leap in logic to infer (from that statement) anything about populations of men and women. You've picked only a single sample from each population and chosen that highly biased representative.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That set is inclusive of every official marathon ever ran, so no it is not a single sample. We see consistently that the women's record always is slower than the men's record.

[–] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Fair, but it's also limited to the very top of the bell curve at any point in time.