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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by mratzloff on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:11AM (#10129871)
20% more upper body strength? Try 2-3x.
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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by Retric on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:24AM (#10129981)
At similar body sizes it's ~20%, women are also generally shorter and often significantly less fit in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_records_in_w...

At unlimited weight it's 151kg vs 212kg, but far more men get into weight lifting so there is bias in those numbers.

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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by mratzloff on Thursday August 27, 2015 @07:31PM (#10132803)
How many women are comparable to a 6', 185 lb man? And we're talking averages, not Olympic competitors.
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Re:The Best Jobs Now Require You to Be a People Person by Retric on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:12PM (#10133152)
Average man in the US is 5' 10" and out of shape. Which is my point the average is a low bar.

Now, 0.1% of females might be at the fit 6' male standard but that's over 150,000 in the US. And there are sub 6' NBA players which suggests is an unreasonably high bar for the vast majority of things.

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