Jun 12, 2021 06:01 PM
(This post was last modified: Jun 12, 2021 10:37 PM by C C.)
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...
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/vx-XDBkq5iY
Sex in sport: Men don’t always have the advantage
https://www.sapiens.org/biology/female-m...fferences/
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?
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-m...fferences/
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)
- - - - - -
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?
