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From Medium article:
https://elemental.medium.com/what-makes-women-strong-2c927bf286ef
"What Makes Women Strong?
Science is revealing that when it comes to physical prowess, women may actually be the more powerful sex""If discussions of human physical strength used endurance as the yardstick, women would be strongest. Women have already caught up to, or surpassed, men in some sports like long-distance swimming and ultrarunning, racking up the wins in mixed-gender races (with less support and training than the men). Recently, Camille Herron won 2018's Desert Solstice run, which lasts for 24 hours (she ran 162.9 miles in that time) and Courtney Dauwalter has won 11 mixed-sex ultramarathons, including the Moab 240, a 238-mile race along the Colorado River in Utah. Dauwalter beat the next-fastest competitor there, a man, by 10 hours.
In fact, plenty of research points to the idea that the longer the distance, the better chance a woman has in beating a man, possibly due to a combination of factors like high pain tolerance and less muscle fatigability. There could also be metabolic reasons — some researchers theorize that women burn energy in a way that supports long-distance energy needs. As investigative reporter David Epstein notes in his book, The Sports Gene, when a man and a woman are evenly matched, "the man will typically beat the woman at distances shorter than the marathon, but the woman will win if the race length is extended to forty miles."
[...] "Women are also bodily powerful (the definition of strong) in other ways: Women are also more flexible. "Women tend to have somewhat more laxity in their tendons than men; they are more limber," Dr. Steve Jordan, an orthopedic surgeon at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, told The New York Times. Limber people are less likely to get hurt — less time spent on the sidelines or in surgery. Woman also have a very high degree of accuracy — and depending on the physical pursuit, that can make one athlete stronger than the next. Women on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour regularly significantly outdrive professional men. And according to the National Rifle Association's Colonel Kenneth Haynes — a military logician in the Army who taught both men and women to shoot over a multi-decade career — women shoot guns more accurately: "My units had around 20 percent female personnel in both officer and enlisted ranks. All the women fired Expert their first day, but less than a third of the men did so," writes Haynes."
So, I really wanna hear the fireworks....
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @11:49AM (10 children)
If this is all we have to post to SN, may I suggest just we post fewer stories.
Stop the click-bait agitation feedback loop.
(Score: 5, Informative) by NotSanguine on Friday June 14 2019, @03:22PM (2 children)
Don't like the stories? Submit ones you do.
You have the power to determine what goes on the front page. And guess what, complaining about stories you *don't* like won't do that, submitting stories you do like, will.
Just sayin'.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @04:58PM (1 child)
I know that stories come from Soylentils.
I just stated my preference that we choose to publish less if all we have are stories of this caliber.
The benefit of that approach is that it is even more evident people need to submit stories.
But if you enjoy stories like this, then that's just a difference of opinion between us.
(Score: 2, Touché) by NotSanguine on Friday June 14 2019, @05:49PM
I'd point out, in case it wasn't clear in my first response, that in the time it took you to state your preference and wonder aloud as to the differences in how you and I view various types of stories, you could have submitted a story that *you* like instead.
I posit that such a story submission would be more effective in getting those points across than in posting that comment.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Snow on Friday June 14 2019, @03:47PM (4 children)
Personally, I like the stories that generate conversation. I find the conversation more interesting than the story 90% of the time.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday June 14 2019, @09:15PM (3 children)
Anyone who doesn't is on the wrong site. If you're looking for just a news feed, there are plenty of them out there that are more thorough and more timely. There aren't many out there with a community like ours though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @09:32PM (2 children)
Seriously? Seems only Runaway submissions make it to the frontpage lately. Dude has, shall we say, "Fox News" type tastes.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday June 15 2019, @12:16AM
Get aristarchus to sub something that's not part of his alt-right crusade, without ten miles of editorial snark, and it'll likely get published.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday June 16 2019, @07:30AM
Perhaps you ought to read the submitters' names more closely, for example, over the last 36-48 hours we have had stories from:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 14 2019, @04:17PM
Hi troll, did you eat breakfast today? If not maybe that is why you're so cranky.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday June 16 2019, @07:23AM
I'm not at all sure why you dislike this particular story. And I do not agree with you that it is clickbait.
The source is not from a scientific journal but you are probably aware that we also cover stories from outside the usual STEM topics. Any subsequent discussion arising from this story can justifiably discuss the claims that it contains or try to counter the facts quoted by providing alternative data from other sources. However, the claims all come from sources that should be expected to have knowledge about the subject matter, and seem perfectly reasonable.
As for the 'clickbait' assertion - you can read sufficient information in TFS without having to click anything to decide whether the story interests you or not. If not, please wait because there will be another story along in a short while.
I do not expect everybody to agree with the claims made, but there is nothing wrong with either the claims themselves or the people or organisations making them. But that is why we have a discussion site. People on this site tend to be able to discuss topics without getting hung up on the claims / counter-claims, or at least for any topic other than politics, and this in my view is far better than any story on politics.
As others have already pointed out, please submit something that does appeal to your own interests and we will see if we can get it on the front page. And if you are simply looking for news then there are plenty of other sites catering to your needs.