Only, it is about sampling, and it is about history. If I went into chess club and measured all the men using various strength measurements and then went to the cheerleading team and measured all the women, you'd probably call foul. Not that people in chess club can't be strong and cheerleaders can't be weak, but…

The Army generally deals in outliers, from what you're saying. There is more overlap between men and women than not as we begin to test more and more variables. The outliers, as it were, are actually those heights/strengths/etc. where men and women don't overlap. The fact that so far women haven't tried out for the…

No, actually I have, but you're ignoring my point. I just showed that, in height at the very least, you are incorrect about differences between men and women. There isn't MAN and WOMAN - there is a continuum. Sure, from the outside all men might look the same to you, but on the inside there are huge amounts of…

Right, but you are completely missing the point on the whole "men are encouraged to be strong" thing. Even women who are training for the Olympics are at a disadvantage than men training for the Olympics, for the reasons people have stated before. The pool of men selected for the Olympics in weight lifting is a lot…

You're completely missing what I said. There are 8" differences either way for within gender, however if you look at between gender differences:

It is true - you just said that 90% of men are between 5'5" and 6'2". which is a much greater difference than between 5'0" and 5'5" or 5'8" and 6'2". This is very simplified, but if you do the statistical analyses, you will see that the within sex variation for a majority of physical and mental traits is a lot…

Would you mind providing recent documentation for this? Those studies you cite are still from a time when women weren't encouraged to train. I doubt the same would be true for the men, who probably already had some strength from the kinds of things men do (sports, rough-housing, etc) that women are chastised for…

Yes, you are correct. However, what I was saying was that if you randomly select two men off the street, they are more likely to be significantly different in height, weight, muscle mass, etc. than if you randomly selected a man and a woman and compared them. I am not saying that all women will qualify for special…

Actually, it is. How do I know? Because I read the scientific articles. I know, strange, but I did learn about it in an actual class on developmental biology. The professor talked a lot about this, and we were encouraged to look into it. I did.

People tend to assume that there is a huge difference between men and women, but the truth is that there is more within gender variation than between gender variation. Meaning, statistically, if you pulled two men off the street and compared them, they would be more different than if you compared a random man and a…

What do you think they are doing now? Do you think that because they are with only men that the desire for sex goes away? Do you think they are paying for prostitutes? Do you think they have sex with each other? If they are remaining celibate, all they have to do is keep remaining celibate. It's not hard - I'm doing…

Most of the odor, from what I've learned from physiology classes, actually comes from the fact that the bacteria on your skin (and around your anus) luurrrvvee the nutrient-rich menstrual blood, and they produce a smell when they are consuming it.

Actually, studies show that when people have flexible schedules and happy/balanced home lives, they are more creative and more productive.

Honestly, I'm not sure what the point is. "Next up at 10 - Do designers hire people based on looks?" A majority of designers' clientele are white, so white models probably sell clothes better than other models (or at least, that is what past research has shown). Plus, models on the runway tend to be glorified coat…

Anyone else notice the terrible posture? Maybe it's the former dancer in me, but I want her to stop "toot[ing] the booty" a la Tyra Banks.

Okay, I'm new here and I know that you write articles about women's rights, so I want to post a completely non-related link that maybe you could write about? I'm so sorry to be doing this the wrong way, but I'm clueless as to how to do it the right way.

Okay, and don't ask me to pay for war or abstinence-only education. Wait, we can't handpick things we want to pay for with our tax dollars?

There is most definitely an obesity problem in the US, and obesity is increasing. That book seems sketchy to me. There are statistics from the CDC (http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html) and this wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States), which actually seems pretty well…