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Everest doesn't always feel #1 (mountain climbing hobbies) + Sex in sports - C C - Jun 12, 2021
Everest doesn’t always feel like the tallest mountain (video)
INTRO: At nearly 8,850 meters above sea level, Mt. Everest’s summit is unquestionably the highest point on Earth. But from a climber’s perspective, it doesn’t always feel that way. Thanks to the physics of our atmosphere, at times, it can seem lower than its neighbor, K2 — the second highest peak in the world. Both Everest and K2 climb over 8,500 meters into the sky. At these heights, climbers often carry supplemental oxygen, because there’s so little air to breathe. This is because as altitude increases, air pressure decreases. There are a couple reasons for this...
Sex in sport: Men don’t always have the advantage
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/female-male-athletes-differences/
EXCERPT: . . . Athletic performance differences can be caused by all manner of things across four broad categories: anatomical (physical features such as height), physiological (functional factors like the body’s ability to deliver oxygen to muscles), psychological, and socioeconomic (such as access to equipment and training knowledge). A number of myths and misconceptions exist within each of these categories that tend to ascribe overwhelming advantages to men.
I am here to dispel those myths and misconceptions.
A quick aside: There are different ways to define biological sex (based on the presence of gonads, internal and external genitalia, chromosomes, or hormones). None of these consistently present a clear and hard boundary between male and female; instead, each presents a range of variation. The binary scheme of sex categorization is a false dichotomy: a dichotomy that is misunderstood and misappropriated in ways that can cause harm. This is the dichotomy that I must work within, as most—if not all research—on athletes considers sex a binary attribute.
That said, there are some real, uncontroversial average differences between groups typically categorized as women and men. And the ones conferring an advantage to women, as opposed to men, tend to be less well-known... MORE - details)
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WARNING: "The myths and misconceptions" it addresses set aside for now... As indicated above, this article caters in its introduction to a sociopolitical construct of sex as a spectrum, that it seems to conflate with facts of biology (i.e., physiological). Rather than a gradient of gender in a psychological context -- such also being a device of administrative bodies influenced or dominated by cultural trends and movements. This is a prescribed invention, not genuine science unaffiliated with ideology -- equivalent to introducing creationism in biology. The infiltration of political policies and requirement of conforming to them is just one facet of many in the decline and unreliability of the human (social) sciences, extending even to some areas of biology and medical research.
Replication crisis
The intellectual & moral decline in academic research
Motivated Reasoning Is Disfiguring Social Science
In psychology & other social sciences, many studies [still] fail reproducibility test
‘Woke’ science has no place in government policymaking + Science goes rogue
The Devolution of Social Science
Is social science akin to a cargo cult?
Peer review: How is that working out for ya?
RE: Sex in sport: Men don’t always have the advantage - confused2 - Jun 13, 2021
I'm going to assume the intent of the the thread involves men and women and sport.
In the UK we have football also known as soccer in the US (or possibly vice versa). In terms of 'newsworthiness' (BBC) the results rank equal or above pandemics, elections in ex-colonies and war in minor states.
The game involves a ball about a foot in diameter and two teams of 11 who try to kick the ball into the goal of the opposing team. I'm sure you can already imagine how exciting this will be to watch.
In the UK the professional game is divided into four leagues where each team plays the winner of the previous game within the league until a league champion is found. Somehow (sometimes?) the winner of a lower league can be promoted to the next league and the loser of (he league above can be 'relegated' to the lower league with associated shame and loss of whatever it was they had in the first place.
Investing in a football (or soccer) team is a natural next step for anyone who has made a fortune out of fossil fuels.
Aside from asides I suspect the worst teams in the lowest league are far enough down the food chain that they could pick the best team made up of males, females or others without any particular problem. This doesn't seem to happen.
What we do see is that teams made of women argue that they should have the same pay and status as male league division one players because they are at the top of some league other than the top male league without ever actually playing against one (at least I don't think so).
Personally I would be more likely to watch a team of girls with hour-glass figures and long blond hair playing hopscotch than men playing football but that's just me.
Channelling Syne - if you want to play the game you gotta play it - and the market is the ultimate arbiter of value.