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Re:Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race by anamax on Saturday March 23, 2024 @10:59AM (#39800418)
> new evidence from exercise science shows women are better physiologically suited than men at long distance running.

The average doesn't tell you the shape of the distribution matters

Men's distributions on some things are a bit flatter than women's. As a result, the number of men at the endpoints (for those things) can easily exceed the number of women at those endpoints even when the women's average is higher.

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Re:Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race by lolc on Saturday March 23, 2024 @06:19PM (#39803449)
This is such an under-appreciated point! Even in a sport where the average female is at an advantage over the average male, the top performers will likely still be male due to the higher variance in the male population.
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